Barkantinel have been uboiird iii) st;U & see, she is loaded wltli pipes staves & flower and designed for the Maderia as for the Guns the Captain told inc that if I would give hiin seeurity, that if he w;is taken by the Turk or any of his people to redeem them, tliat then he would leave his guns, but I thought that might cost possibly three or four thousand pounds if Such a thing should fall out & would not venture to give Such Security, and the guns are his own, & I could not takt any mans goods by force besides the Captain Swears that if any come a board he will cut them over the pate, or Knock their brains out.

As for the other reasons, the Papists in the fort and those Soldiers comming from Boston he made no other answer this that the governor was an honest man & as for the Papists were few & insignificant, & that we were very Unwise to afraid of them, I will lend you my boat t9 night, if you will go to Statcn Island & Satisfy yourselves, four'or five of us answered we were willing to go, then he said I think it is better to let it alone till to Morrow Morning & then I will lend you my boat -- And so accordingly we went the next Morning to Staten Island were the first news we had was, that they were afraid to Lay in their beds for fear of the Papists & that they heard that M'^ De la Prearie's house there were arms for a hundred men, we Spoke to M' Vincent a frenchman, that had left his house & had taken his family in his boat & went and lay upon the river for fear of these relations, M"" Mark told us that about eighteen or Nineteen Persons had run from their houses about the Place where he lived & lay in the woods through these fears --