Gent" we shall not enlarge, but with heartj desyres of youi welfare & prservalion of of best Respects we bid farell and are your assured friends.

The Generall Court of Connecticut,

pf their order, Signed John Allyn, Sec'y

These for the Hon*^ Cap^ Jacob Leishler & the rest of the Captn« in New Yorke. This.

*THE DELEGATES FROM CONNECTICUT TO CAPT LEISLER.

Capt Leisler & ye rest of ye Capts that have been active with

you in taking of, and securing ye Fort in this Citty of N.

York for his Ma^'^s service & for ye preservation & security of

these parts of his Mat'^s Territories.

Whereas you were pleased to send unto our Colony of Connecticutt, for advice and assistance as need might be, which letter was presented unto our Gen^ Assembly of Gov^ & Company in Hartford, ye 13^h of this present time which assembly were extremely ready to consider of what might be best for his Ma^^^' service & yo'^ encouragement in securing these American partes from French and other foreign or intestine enemies: -- Wee were therefore appointed & ordered by ye afores<^ Gen^ Assembly, with speed to come to this citty, to give our advice and promise you such assistance as our abilyty & yo"" necessetyes and condition may call for. And Whereas we are ordered in our instructions, to receive a full ace* of yoi^ motions of late in this Citty & ye grounds and reasons of yo' takeing and securing ye Fort, and when we came here we found to our amazement ye trueth of what we had heard (viz) ye Fort much out of repair, more of ye great gunns not fit for service, very few platforms for gunns to play on, and by ye account shewed us ; taken by skilfull honest men, of ye Powder, that of fifty barrells, but one good, & a considerable part not fitt for any service, and ye rest would not slinge a bullet halfe over the river, & also by informacon it appearing to us that Cap* Nicholson, late Lieut Gov^ having lift ye Fort who hasted away privately to Singeronis, about seven Leagues from Yorke to Coll.