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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.
Order, therefore, to bring the said offenders to condign Punishment, and that others warned by theirExample, may be deterred from the Commission of such dangerous Practices for the Future, I havethought fit, by and with the Advice of his Majesty’s Council to issue this Proclamation, hereby strictlycommanding and requiring the Sheriff'of the City and County of Albany , to apprehend and take all,and every the before-named Rioters and Offenders, and them to commit to safe and secure Custodyto answer for tlieir several Offences, and to be dealt with according to Law : And for that Purpose ifit shall be necessary, to raise and take to his Assistance the Posse Comitatus, or whole Power ofthe County : And all Magistrates Officers, and Ministers of Justice, are hereby enjoined and requiredto give tlieir Aid and Assistance, nor only in apprehending the said several Offenders, and com-mitting them to safe Custody ; but in preventing and suppressing all future Riots and Disorders,of tiie like dangerous Tendency.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort George, in the City of New-York , the twelfthDay of December, 1769, and in the tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George theThird, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland , King, Defender of the Faith,and so forth.
By his Honor’s Command,
Gw. Banyar, D. Secry.
God save the King.
AFFIDAVITS OF MESSRS. BRACKENRIDDE AND ROBINSON.
On the Nineteenth Day of October A. D. 1769. Leu 1 James Breakenridge went with his hiredmen To his Field and Some others to gathering corn and Some more People asembled a few ofwhitch had guns : & John Munro Esq r Come their & in a friendly manner told him the S*i Breakinridgethe Gentlemen from Albany were a coming to Run a Line their and Told him not to Stop them ByForce if he Did he would Expose him Selth to the Law and Read the Law To him upon whitch saidBreakinridge Desired the people to go home or with Draw out of liis Field as lie Saith : for theGentlemen from Albany were then within about Eighty Rods a Running their Line into S d fieldInstantly Sam 11 Robinson Returned from Albany with advice from M r Silvester the King Atourneyand a Notter gentleman of Note whitch Breakinridge and Robinson again Desired the people towithDraw and if they would not we would go home upon whitch the people withDrew Some Distance:Said Breakinridge and Robinson went to the Surveyor and Cliainman after they had come into thefield over the Twenty mile Line so called : and ask them By what authority they Run in our Possessionsand Desired them Not to Run : they Told us we must ask the commissioners whitcli we Desiredthey would call them the Surveyor Spoke to them and Sed he was Stopt M r Bleeker made answerhave they Broke your chain they Sed No lie answered Run then then we Desired lie would Letthem Stop which was Done for we wanted Some Talk together and they came to us Namely JohnR. Bleeker Peter Langsing Esq r and Thomas hun Commissioners : and after compliments M r .Lansing Saith Robinson I am glad to see you But what means so many People together and somewith arms our People Being in Sight about Sixty Rods off we told them we could not tell we had noconnection with their Being together and had Desired them to withDraw out of the field : and hopedthey would not take any advantage : for our People Did Not understand Law M r Lansing Seilh we