S"" we wish you all pros perity & are

These for the Hon^ie Your affectionate friends the Genera 11

Capt. Jacob Leisler Court of Conecticotpr their order

Comander in Cheife of Signed

iheir Ma^'es forte John Allyn Sec'y

.n New Yorke. this.

LIEUT. GOV. I.EISLER. o5

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LEISLER'S PROCLAMATION CONFIRMING THE ELECTION BY THE CITIZENS OF THE MAYOR, SHERIFF, .CLERK AND COMMON COUNCIL OF xNEW YORK.

Whereas, by order of ye Committee of Safety it was ordered, that ye Mayor, Sherife and Clerk shal^be chosen by ye Mayor and votes of ye freehoklers Come to Peter De La Noy Esq. for Mayor ami Johannes Johnson for Sherife and Abra. Gouverneur for Clerk who were accord iny^iy confirmed as viz: By the Commander in Chiefe &c.

Whereas ye Committee of Safety have appointed me to confnme ye Civil magistrates and officers for ye Citty and County of New Yorke chosen by ye Protestant freemen of s'^ City and County of New York according to returns made by virtue whereof I doe hereby accordingly confirm Peter De La Noy to be Mayor, Johannes Johnson, Sherife and Abraham Gouverneur town clerke for s^^ City and County of New York, to continue in their s^ stations according to ye true intent and meaning of ye act of said Committee

And also do ccmfirm for ye next ensuing yeare for ye City and County of New York Hendrick Van Veurden, Aldermanj Goert Olphelse assistant -and Nicolaes Blanck, constable for ye West ^ard: John Spratt, alderman; Gerret Duycking assistant, Edward Brinckmaster, constable for ye Dok wara : Robert Walters, aldermanj Joannes Provoost, assistant, John Thomas, constable, for ye South ward: Cornells Plevier, alderman j Henry Ten Eyck, assistant, John Ewouts, constable for ye Northward: John Hendrick Bruyns, Alderman; Peter Adolph, assistant, Daniel Brevoort constable, for ye East ward: Joannes Van Cowenhoven, alderman; Wolfert Webber, assistant; Frederick Lymonse constable for ye Out ward, and John Brevoort, constable for Harlem division.