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Allison Dirk Vanderburg Brand Siaeuler In the morning the five companies compleat coming for the fort received orders, then came the Baker & Tuder over whom the people were in a rage to satisfie them I was obliged to secure them & dismissed the company, and upon informatione by M"" Lawrence from his grand child from Boston, the quality of the said strangers being but slender ground, with the charity I had I released them, I sent also for the officers of the militia to release the others but they came not that day. Sabbath day following they remained, Monday night I intended for them because the two companies being to work that day I went home & absented me for two or three hours for to write to their Mamies, In the mean tyme the s<J prisoners sent for nine fiddles

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• AFFDAVITS AGAINST NICHOLSON.

The deposition of Nicholas Brown Aged Twenty three Years, the said Deponent declares that he being in the" Service of Y« late King Anno One thousand six hundred Eighty Six some time ' in July & August, did see Frances Nicholson Y^ late lieu' Gov ernor of Y« fort at New York Several times in Y« Masse, but especially two times in Y^ Kings tent at Hunsloheath in old ingland, being there to Exercise his devotions, & did Y* the same upon his Knees before the Alter in the papist Chappel, where the Mass was said, that himself, this deponent is ready to Confirm and declare upon Oath in testimony of the truth & have hereunto Set my hand. In New York this 12*'! day of Septem" Anno 1689.