The Revolution in New England justified, and the people there vindicated from the aspersions…

We will produce those that have said (and sworn as much as all this comes to. For John Pittome hath upon Oath declared, That James Sherlock, Sir Edmunds Sheriff, came on Dear Island on the 28th of January 1688. and turned him and his Family afloat on the Water when it was a snowy day, although he was Tenant there to Coll. Shrimpton, and that the said Sherlock put two men (whom he brought with him) into possession of the said Island (as he said) on behalf of King James the Second. Let him also know, that Mr. Shepard and Mr. Burri• of Lin, and James Russell Esq of Charles-town in New-England have declared upon Oath as followeth.

We will produce those that have said (and sworn as much as all this comes to. For John Pittome hath upon Oath declared, That James Sherlock, Sir Edmunds Sheriff, came on Dear Island on the 28th of January 1688. and turned him and his Family afloat on the Water when it was a snowy day, although he was Tenant there to Coll. Shrimpton, and that the said Sherlock put two men (whom he brought with him) into possession of the said Island (as he said) on behalf of King James the Second. Let him also know, that Mr. Shepard and Mr. Burri• of Lyn, and James Russell Esq of Charles-towne in New-England have declared upon Oath as followeth.

Jeremiah Shepard Aged forty two years and John Burril aged fifty seven years, we whose names are subscribed being made choice of by the Inhabitants of the Town of Lin in the Massachusetts Colony in New England to maintain their right to their properties and I ands invaded by Sir Edmund Androsse Governor, we do testify that (besides Sir Edmund Androsse his unreasonable demands of Money by way of Taxation, and that without an assembly, and Deputies sent from our Town according to ancient custom, for the raising of Money or levying of Rates) our Properties, our honest and just and true Titles to our Land were also invaded, and particularly a great and considerable tract of Land called by the name of the Nahants, the only secure place for the Grazing of some thousands of our Sheep, and without which our Inhabitants could neither provide for their own Families, nor be capacited to pay dues or duties for the maintenance of the public, but (if dispossessed of) the Town must needs be impoverished, ruined, and rendered miserable, yet this very tract of Land being Petitioned for by Edward Randolph, was threatened to be rent out of our hands, notwithstanding our honest and just Pleas for our right to the said Land, both by alienation of the said Land to us from the Original Proprietors the Natives, to whom we paid our Moneys by way of purchase, and notwithstanding near fifty years peaceable and quiet possession and improvement,