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From Council Min. V. ] ffort James Tuesday ye

Mr Brockholes Informed y

e

19^ July 1687. (0. S.)

Council he is now come from Albany & Schenectadae with Instructions

ffrom the Govern* to bring up with all convenient speed a Certain Number of Men & some Provisions.

The Instructions Read Ordred that sixty men be raysed out of y e Citty & County of New York & sixty men out of Queens County that Warrants be forthwith made out to Major Willett to Raise the men in y e Queens County

and to Coll. Bayard to raise y e men in y e Citty & County of New York, that an Expresse be Imediately sent to Major Willett with y e s d Warrant & that he & Coll. Bayard have their Complement of

Men Well armed in flort James on y e 22 th Inst.

FROM MR. GRAHAM TO MR. SPRAGG. [London Doc. V.]

New York, 16 July 1687. you by this occasion acknowledgements and also to acquainte you that Mr. Swinton departed this life the 3 d currant, after that he had been violently seized with three fitts of an apoplexie. In the interval of his fitts he was very sencible but without Sir