Santen his oath as appears by the Minutes of Council John Young had his oath given him but hee lives 1 50 miles from this, @ has no estate of his own and very old, that it is a thing impossible for him to serve There being a clause in my Instructions wherein I am limited not to act without five, therefore Mr John Spragg @ Major Jervis Baxter going for England, and there not being a sufficient number to make a quorum, I have by Vertue of a clause in my letters Patents, impowring mee in case of absence out of the Government death or Suspension to add of the principal Freeholders) given the

oath to Judge Palmer and Nicolas Bayard the present Mayor to serve in the Council until his Maty 8 pleasure be known

And whereas there is a clause in my instructions to send over the names of six persons more fitt to supply the vacancy of the Council six of the fittest I find in this Government are as followeth

Mathias Nichols Judge

James Graham William Smith Gabriel Minvielle

Francis Rumbouls

Major Nicolas Demyre

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THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

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EXTRACT FROM THE KING'S INSTRUCTIONS TO THE MARQUIS DE DENONVILLE, March [

10, 1685.

Paris Doc. III. ]

His principal object ought to be to establish, the repose of the Colony by a firm and solid peace. But to render this peace durable he must lower the pride of the Iroquois, support the Illinois and the other alhes whom S r de la Barre has abandoned, and by a firm and vigorous policy to let the said Iroquois know that they will have every thing to fear if they do not submit to the conditions which