Alliiough by the way of Boston, I suppose you would sooner receive the sad tidings of your brother's decease -- in Avhom as you have lost an only brother, so have la dear friend; I shall not insist upon many particulars relating thereto; our general letters arriving to you herewith I hope sufficiently inform you ; yet I cannot but reflect upon the transitory condition of poor mortals, when I trcquently call to mind iu how little time God hath been pleased to break a, family, in takingaway the heads thereof ; first, a virtuous young woman in the prime of life, and then a man full of strength and vigor, inured to hardships, of whom there is remaining but one poor blossom, of whom yet there may be great hope with your kind friendship ; for it is a lovely, healthy child, and was well at flarlem, where it is at nurse, and I went to sec it yesterday. I was also at the plantation on the other side, when there was some public correction of two or three negi-oes, and breaking the necks of a mutiny among the white men by Mr. Gibbs, and through his vigilance it is now in good order. The crime of the negroes is reported to be so natural to them, which was both stealing and receiving stolen goods. Wortny sir, Your most dutiful Humlile servant, The Governor presents you his ■ MATTHIAS ZSICOLL.

kind respects and service.

" Letters of administration of the estate of Captain Richard ^^orris, brother of Colonel Le%^as Morris, were granted to Mr. Matthev^- Nicolls, Mayor ; Captain Thomas De Lavall, Mr. Cornelius Steenwyck, Captain John Berry, and ]Mr. Thomas Gibbs, trustees, in i6j2."'^