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GOV. DONGAn’s REPORT ON THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

to bee without their meers @ bounds the patent was passed in which Capt« Palmer is expresslybounded where hee adjoins to Hempsted by their line, And, wherein hee says the Hempsted peoplewere frighted to let their Suits fall, its quite otherwise, for this Pearsall, upon the granting of thisPatent got into possession of this land, inasmuch as Judge Palmer was forcet to commence suitsagainst him Where after it had sometime depended, Pearsall finding that to insist on his pretencewould not avail him, suffered judgement to goe against him, and as for his being frightened into itby Capt n Palmers being Judge, there’s noe such thing for on purpose he withdrew himself @ left themanagement of that Court to his Collegue Judge Nicolls and as for the lands being the only pastureof the town its wholly false for its noe pasture at all, being all woodland, and that town having aplain of upwards of 40,000 acres of good pasture without a stick upon it @ as for its value I believeJudge Palmer would think himself obliged to Cap 1 Santen or any others that would give him £200.for it.

To the Seventeenth concerning Mr Grahams insinuationMr Santen is in the right that Mr Graham is Attorney-general @ supervisor of all Patents @ soemade upon Mr Rudyard’s going from this place to Barbadoes @ is a person understanding in thelaw, it being his whole business Wherefore I thought it not fit to pass any patents without hisperusal least I might doe prejudice to the King. It is likewise true that I have called in former patents@ still continue to doe so, that I might see by what Tenure they hold their lands, which I find gene-rally to be by none, they paying noe acknowledgment to the King Whereupon being convinced ofthat defect by the resolution of y e Judges the people for their own ease @ quiet @ that of theirposterity which otherwise might have fallen under the lash of succeeding Governors, without theleast murmuring have renewed their patents with a reservation of a certain Quit-Rent to the Kingto the noe small advancement of his Revenue, @ this done with general satisfaction @ of whichnone will in the least complain but on the contrary express themselves thankful for it

Mr Santen sure when hee wrote this article against mee did not consider the obligation that wasupon us both to advance the Kings interest in our several stations, far less how inconsistent it waswith his office to bee the only pson aggrieved at the advancement of his Mat 3 ' 8 revenue, when thepeople themselves that are concerned are not only satisfied but pleased with itAgain hee forgets that hee was a member of the Council when they gave it for their opinion thatthose former patents were insufficient® and were then dayly consenting to the passing of new ones.As for sums of money exacted I own I have received £200 from Ranslaer, but its nothing to whatmy perquisits would have amounted to according to the aforementioned regulation hee having a vasttract of land

From Hempted I rec J one hundred pound by forty @ that in Cattle which is far less than mypquisits they hauing upwards of 100.000 acres, I own alsoe I have received £300 from the citty ofNew York , @ have granted them nothing more than what they had from my predecessors, @ is nowbefore his Maty for a confirmation

The land that Mr Santen complains of to bee such a grievance, is the Dock which the town attheir own proper charge have taken from the sea, @ and dayly are at vast expense to maintain, @what use they make of it is not my business to inquire, but as to their selling to the value of £1500% my use its wholly false, And as for those other sums of 50, 30 @ 20 pound, its not soe. I wasnever covetous to take from the poor people what they could not well spare, the Secratary is mywitness, but if I had it never amounted to my pquisits, according to the regulation aforesaidBesides the charge herein before answered were found several memorandums of what Mr SantenAntwet ,0 intended to complain against me. Among which there being some things not mentioned inm* m’dSST* the said charge, the same as I presume' not being perfected, I presume further to troubleyour Lop 8 with what I have to say therein in my vindication