" Hliereae, our inteiitioQ tended only but to the preservatiou of tbe [irolestant religion ami tlie fort of tliis city, to the end tliat we may avoid and prevent the rash judgment of the world in so just a design, we have thought tit to let every body know by these public proclamatione that till the safe arryval of the .ships that we expect every day from his royal highness, the prince of Orange, with orders for the government of this country in the behalf of such person as the said royal highness had chosen and honored with the charge of a Governor, that as soon as the bearer of the said orders shall have let us see his power, then and without any delay execute the said orders punctually, declaring that we do intend to suliniit and obey not only the said orders but also the liearer thereof committed for the execution of the same.'- In witness hereof we have signed these presents the third of June, KiS'J.

It appears also that there was a company of soldieis from New Rochelle, commanded by CaptainiCottomear. When it is remembered that it was at this very time that the French settlers of New Rochelle obtained through Leisler their lands in that town from John Pell, and when also the rumors industriously circulated are presented, which pictured the French as having, among other designs in taking New York, one to seize their countrymen, the Huguenots, and torture them or ship them back to France,^ it will be obvious how easy it was for Leislei' to involve them, in his designs, as subserving thereby their own safety. The interest of Westchester in these proceedings also appears in the fact that when, after the destruction of Schnectady, Leisler sent an expedition against the French and the Indians, there is no doubt that there was, for its size, a large representation of the County in these troops.^