The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

BOSTON, August 26.

By an Express from Pittsfield last Wednesday, we have further Accounts of the Distress of the Inhabitants on the Western Parts of the Province, who are at their Wit's End, they are afraid to work in their Fields in the Day, and of having their Houses burnt or robbed in the Night; a Number of armed Men, who call themselves the King's Troops, but seem to conduct themselves like a Number of Banditti or Collection of Robbers, not content with their daily Ravages in Nobletown, have extended themselves into Egremont in this Province, broke into and robbed the House of one Bunts, in the Night of the 13th Instant, bound the old Man, &c. then went to another House and took off a Man, and carried him with them: The Night following were again in Egremont: It is said those armed Men give out they will clear all the Inhabitants off from the River: They are in Fears of a Visit from them at Great-Barrington, as they had wrote to them that they should come. Maj. Williams and Capt. Dwight went to Nobletown to solicit the Officers of the Party for Liberty that Sheffield and Barrington People might come and reap and secure the Grain that was not destroyed, and afterwards Col. Ashley went upon the same Errand, and were refused. It is said the Basis of Livingston's and Van Rensselaer's envenomed Treatment of these People is, Conscious of the Weakness of their Titles to these Lands, and that they never obtained the Indian Title in a just and equitable Manner, and that Jacob, Solomon, and John, who were the proper Owners of the Land, are gone Home with Mr. Griggs, Nephew to General Conway, they imagine they shall not hold any of these Lands unless they so distress the present Occupiers, who have bought the Indian Title, to come in and take Leases under them. This is the Stimulus that actuates them at the present Day.