Milborne Insisting to have y® s"^ men to be under a Superior officer who was to be Commander of ye fortj Distinct from the Civill function, and that then he should fynde a way to pay y® men, which y® Convention by no means would Condeshend, but yt s^ men should be under y® Comjnand of y® Convention till orders came from there Maj^s otherwise could expect no assistance from them, which answer was sent him by y« s^ Capt gerritse alderman Schaik & Johannes Cuyler assistant.

In ye meantime the Convention sent messengers thrice to y' People Convened att y® Citty hall to Disperse themselfs and goe home, they nevertheless went on and choose y® s^ Jochim Staets to be Capt of y* Comp® come from N: Yorke by syneing there names to near a hundred Persones, most youthes, and them that were no freeholders which s^ Place y® s** Jochim Staets did accept contrare to y^ order of y® Convention of which he was a member

Yea ye People were so Rageing and mutinous that some of y* Convention being in ye Citty hall, were forced to withdraw

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themselfs being threatened and menaced that they were in danger of there hfe, all which was occasioned by y® Instigation of Jacob Milborne who is come hither with no oy Design then to overthrow all, as Plainly appears by all his actions Deludeing yc Common People by Promiseing them Priviledges and hbertyes and such like false notions and Suggestions endeavouring to draw y<^ People off from there obedience due to there Lawfull authority Confirihed by there now Majes William & Mary and to fill this Citty and County with Divisions factions and Sedition to y® utter Ruine of ye same Especially in this juncture while we are Surrounded with ye heathen who Seing such Divisions may undertake some Dfesperate Design and Breake there Covenant with us kept so many Years Inviolable --