to be subscribed
by Mess rs de Callieres and Vaudreuil and by Monsieur Gaillard, and countersigned
by Our Secretary.
And they sign
:
J.
Rene de Brissay, Marquis de Denonville, le Chevalier de
Callieres, Chevalier de Vaudreuil, Gaillard ; and lower down by Monseigneur Tophlin.
[
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