Yorke with a letter to Capt Leysler and ye Rest of y® Military officers of ye Citty & County of N: Yorke according to y^ Resolution of this Convention ye 4*^ of this Instant being Returned was sent for and asked whither he had Delivered ye Letter as it Wiis Directed and if he had Received any answer from s<^ Leysler to y*^ gent" that had sent him who answered that he had delivered y" Letter to Capt. Leysler but had no letter in answer but thatt Directed to Capt Wendel and Capt Bleeker and y* he further heard Capt. Leysler say, y* he had nothing to doe w*^ y® Civill Power he was a Souldier and would write to a Souldier.

Resolved since Capt Leysler and ye Military officers of y« Citty and County of N: Yorke have not been Pleased to Return y« Least answer to ye Convention upon there Letter and Resolve of ye 4th Instant but sent a Letter to Capt wendel &Capt Bleeker signed by Leysler alone which is openly Read, ye Purport of which Cheeffly tends to Desyre them to Induce the Common People to send Two men to assist them in there Committe, and ;;(IvisG them further y* he sends them 40 lb match out of there Majts Stores and Two Imndred lb of Pouder belonging to ye mer-

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chanls of albany Item 4 small Gunns, but as for money they Receive none, neither is itt in there Power to Command any of there Militia for our assistance alledgeing yt ye great slight there People Rec'd when here Deprives them to oblige Volunteers, Insisting again for y* Sending doune of Committes to consult wth them and shal then according to there Capacities Resolve for ye Publick good.