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SHERIFF SCHUYLER TO LT. GOV . COLDEN.
May it please your Honour
Fryday morning an Express arrived from Hoseck, acquainting that the New Hampshire people had turned Hans Jurry Creiger, an Inhabitant under the Proprietors of Hoseck Patent, outof Possession of his Lands and Tenements; drove off his Cattle and took off with them a Parcel ofIndian Corn , and for the Redemption of his Cattle compelled him to pay forty five Dollars ; Andthe said Express further informed that the said New Hampshire People were the next Day to be atthe Houses of Peter Voss, and Bastiane Deale, in order in Like manner to dispossess them of theirPossessions; which they had peaceably enjoy’d under the Proprietors of said Hoseck Patent forupwards of thirty years past, except only, when driven off by the Enemy Indians during the twolast Wars.
In consequence of which Intelligence I thought it my Duty, in Complyance with your HonoursProclamations to go to Hoseck, in order to preserve the Peace & keep the said Peter & Bastiane intheir said Possessions, and fully to exercise the jurisdiction of this Province according to the truIntent & meaning of your Honours said Proclamation.
And in order the more effectually to enable me so to do, I thought it proper to take with me two ofthe Justices and a few other good People of this Province, and I arrived with them at Hoseck at theHouses of the said Peter & Bastiane on Saturday Morning, where I was told the New Hampshire People would not come untill the Monday following. Accordingly that day very early in the morn-ing they sent to my Lodgings (a small distance off) acquainting me that the New Hampshire Peoplewere then at the Houses of the said Peter & Bastiane. Whereupon I immediately hastned thither,together with the said two Justices, & few other good People of this Province; But before I couldget there, the Said New Hampshire People had already perpetrated their Design of turning the saidPeter Voss & Bastiane Deale out of their Possessions; and claimed the same as belonging to theProvince, and under the Jurisdiction of New Hampshire. And on Information that the said NewHampshire People were but just gone; I followed and overtook them about a mile further, andthere apprehended Samuel Ashley, who called himself a Deputy Sherif. Samuel Robison a Justiceof the Peace, John Horsfoot and Isaac Charles. The two last, pretended owners of the Lands ofthe said Peter & Bastiane. All whom I brought down to the Jail in Albany; where I shall Safelykeep them untill Bail be given for their appearance & good Behaviour; or untill your Honoursfurther Pleasure shall be known respecting them. Iam, May it please your Honour
Your Honours most Obe 4 & most Hb le Servant
Har: Schuyler, Shirefl'.
(Endorsed) 17 th Aug 1 1764. Read in Council.
[ Cotmo. Min. xxv. ]
In Council, 4 Sept. 1764.
His Honour communicated a Letter to him of the 17 th ultimo from Governor Wentworth (of NewHampshire ) representing that several of the Inhabitants of the Town of Pownall, at a Time whenthe Deputy Sheriff was executing a legal Precept, w r ere set upon by the Sheriff Albany, and morethan thirty armed men on Horseback, and that the Deputy Sheriff with three other Principal