This document after reciting the King's Patent to himself, and a brief description of the boundaries therein set forth, continues: -- "'And whereas I have conceived a good opinion of the integrity, prudence, ability, and fitness of Richard Nicolls, Esquire, to be employed as my Deputy there, I have thought fit to constitute and appoint, and I do hereby constitute and appoint him the said Richard Nicolls, Esquire, to be my Deputy Governor within the lands. Islands, and places aforesaid, To perform and execute all and every the powers which are by the said Letters Patent granted unto me to be executed by my Deputy Agent or Assign. To Have and to Hold the said place of Deputy-Governor unto the said Richard Nicolls Esquire, during my will and pleasure only ; Hereby willing, and requiring, all and every the Inhabitants of the said Lands, Islands, and places, to give obedience to him the said Richard Nicolls, in all things according to the tenor of his Majesty's said Letters Pattent."^

Under the King's Patent of the 12th March, 1664, and these Instructions and commissions from Charles 2d, aud the Duke of York, the forcible seizure and annexation of the Province of New Netherland to the English Kingdom was effected.

The expedition, bonsisting of the Guinea of 36 guns, Capt. Hugh Hyde, the Ellas of 30 guns, Capt. AVilliam Hill, the Martin of 16 guns, Capt. Edward Grove, and the William and Nicholas, Capt. Morley, of 10 guns, carrying the commissioners and a body of troojis, about 450 in number, sailed from Portsmouth on the 15th of May, 1664. Nicolls the commander-in-chief and Cartwright embarked in the Guinea, and Carr and Mavericke in the Martin. Their orders were to rendezvous in Gardiner's Bay, at the east end of Long Island. The voyage was long, the vessels got sejiarated, and the Martin, aud Nicholas and William, were obliged to run into Piscataway (Portsmouth) New Hampshire on the 20th of July, 1664, whence Mavericke the same day wrote the following brief account of the voyage to Capt.