Att a Convention &c.

Albany the 5^^ day of novembf 1689 Present as before According to y" Resolution taken by y^ Convention yesterday ye Burgers and Inhabitants of ye Citty and Part of y® County were Conveined in ye Citty hall by Bell Ringing and these following Proposalls were made & given them in writeing & Desyred to give there answer.

LIEUT. GOV. LEISLER. 109

Proposeaj.ls made by the Convention to y^ People. In Albany y^ 6^^ day of novemb"^ 1689. Upon y^ Report of men comeing from N: Yorke

1 If they be not Resolved to stand for y^ Privileges of there Citty and County, and to Resist all p'sons who shall endevor to Brake y^ Same.

2 If they had any objection or any thing against the Magistrates or members of y*^ Convention from y^ Least member to ye greatest, That they now would Reveale y® Same.

3 If they w^erj Inclined to pay y*^ Souldiers wages comeing from N: Yorke which we heare y® miUtary officers of N: Yorke have Engaged must be paid by y^ Inhabitants of albany

4 If they had any mistrust of Leift Tho. Sharpe whom y^ Convention have Continued in y® fort to be under them, and if they would have one besides him to have y® Command of y® fort

5 Since we have heard Su( h Strange Rumours, if it would not be Very Dangerous to Suffer y® men comeing from New Yorke to come into y® Citty, before we have Sufficient assurance that they come with a good Intent to assist us as neighbours, and to obey the Convention, and not to turn y® government of ye Citty upside doune, to make themselfs master of the fort and Citty, and t© fetch y® meanest Burger from hence ; and if they Burgers would not oppose Such hostility aud force.