provided the Government does not speadily interpose in my favour, This Loomis was formerly a Tenant of mine who was dispossesed by a Corse of Law and turnd out of possession by the Sherriff of the County, and afterwards Committed to Albany Goal for his riotes proceedings & now begins to act in the same manner again.

If you can suggest to his Hon' any better or more Effectual method to prevent this mob's giving me any further trouble, or if his Honr can propose any thing more agreable to him and the Gentlemen of the Councill to Effect this much desired End, it will be very agreable to me, and lay me under obligations, as the post is just going must conclude & am

Your affectionate Father

ROBT LIVINGSTON Jun'.

Mr Peter Livingston & Mr James Duane

These Rioters have given me no trouble Since the Proclamation Issued in 1757 & now they Intend to make their Last bold push, which I think will be prevented by another Proclamation comeing out in time.

R L.

HoNrd SIR

ENCLOSURE IN THE PRECEDING.

Ancram 20th March 1762.

Last night Coenrat Clyn came to my house from Taghkanick and Desired me to Acquaint you that Robert Miller was appointed by the Club as an Agent to go for them to New York in order to procure Title from the Governor for the Land at Taghkanick their farther Resolutions were to Every man make his Pitch and Settle this Spring it appears to me these Turbilent folks will Give you fresh Trouble and it may be worse than Ever if no method can be thought on to stop them in the first part of their Carreer if they were people of any Consideration there would be some hopes that the Late Proclamation would prevent their farther attempts but they are a Sett of fellows void of all thought but what may make the Settlement & Possesion of your Lands

firm and Eassy to themselves which I hope may never take place Mr Decker will come down to morrow by whome I send Mr Harris Bond for £43. 4 and 61 cash for 8 Sheermoulds he forgot to ask for when ye Bond was Given I am Hond Sir

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By the Honourable CADWALLADER COLDEN, Esq; His Majesty s Lieutenant Governor, and Commander in Chief of the Province of New-York, and the Territories depending thereon in America.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it appearing that certain Persons residing on or near the Eastern Boundaries of this Province, had entered into a Combination to dispossess Robert Livingston, junior, Esq; Proprietor of the Manor of Livingston, in the Colony of NewYork, and the Tenants holding under him, of the Lands comprised within the said Manor, under Pretence of Title from the Government of the Massachusetts-Bay; as also of an Indian Purchase then lately made by the said Persons, altho' it was most notorious that the said Manor had been peaceably held and

enjoyed by the said Robert Livingston, and his Ancestors for Seventy Years past. And that by the illegal Proceedings of the said Persons, supported with Force, the Course of Justice had been obstructed, the Lives of several of his Majesty's Subjects lost, and private Property infringed and greatly injured: This Government did, on the 8th June, 1757, issue a Proclamation for the apprehending certain Persons therein named, who had been, and all others who thereafter should be guilty of such riotous and illegal Proceedings. AND WHEREAS the aforesaid evilminded Persons, and others confederating with them, particularly Robert Miller, and Josiah Loomis, in Contempt of the said Proclamation, and in open Defiance of the Authority of this Government, have lately riotously assembled within the said Manor, and do now threaten to dispossess the Tenants of the said Robert Livingston, and to seat and maintain themselves therein by Force and Violence. IN ORDER THEREFORE to prevent the Accomplishment of such pernicious Designs, and to preserve the Publick Peace: I HAVE thought fit, with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, Hereby in His Majesty's Name strictly enjoining all Persons to forbear and desist from such violent and unjust Proceedings, on Pain of being punished with the utmost Rigour of the Law. And hereby commanding the Sheriffs, and other Civil Officers within the Counties of Albany and Dutches, to apprehend and keep, or cause to be committed in safe Custody, all and every such Person or Persons, who shall or may unlawfully assemble together in the said Manor, or who shall by Force or Violence dispossess, or otherwise disturb or molest the Inhabitants therein, or contrary to Law possess themselves of any Part thereof. AND All His Majesty's Subjects, in the Counties aforesaid, are required to give due Assistance to the said Sheriffs within their respective Bailiwicks, who are hereby impowered and directed, if necessary, to raise the Posse or whole Power of the County, for the better and more effectual Execution of the Premises.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort-George, in the City of New-York, the Thirty-first Day of March 1762, in the Second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George