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.

Therefore are all mhabitants hereby required to give due obedience to ye Magistrates and officers, and are to acknowledge the same accordingly at Fort Amsterdam ye 14 Octo. 1689 and on ye first year of ther Majestys Reigne.

Jacob Leisler.

Note-- I am indebted to the politeness of D. T. Valentine, Esq., clerk of the Common Council of New-York, for the above Record.

36 ADMINISTUATION OF

LEISLER TO THE ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND.

A. 1689 15 October The above is a coppy of my last to which I referre you since we have certaine news from new England that they have killed 50 Indians of their enimies & tooke six captives monks with the King* the English have lost S'l^men &2 Indians In the actions I had Intelligence of severall persons meeting in a papist house where I thought some of yOur fugitives might have been mongst them, made me resolve to send 25 souldiers wKo besett the house in the night but found non but the family & disarmed the man & brought him to me whom I released again upon his parroll to harbor no Jesuit nor to intertaine bigger company than tuo in his house, we hear from pensilvania that there is lately arryved a man of warr katch from England to Virginia, I desire if any newes worth will acquaint me with it, we expect tomorrow our committees to meet for to resolve to send some forces to Albany to secure them from the french next winter, our Indians doe daily gett spoile upon them the french prisoners reports that warre betwixt france & England is proclaimed at Canada, having for present no more to enlarge after my respects I remaine &ct.