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 --

The Convention being met together in y® fort Sent Johannes Cuyler Ens: Job: Sanders & Ens: abr: Schuyler to Leift Jochim Staets to know y^ Certainty, if he had accepted of y® Capt. Place by Virtue of such an Illegal assembly or meeting of ye People chooseing him so who made answer

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This afternoon hend: ten Eyck was Sent by Jacob Mitborne with this following Paper to y* Convention Viz*

, Albany novembr y^ Hth i689

Whereas I am authorized by y^ Committee for the Province of N: Yorke and y^ Councill of warr for y^ s^ Citty of N: Yorke aforesaid to order y^ affaires att albany, and in Pursuance thereof have made knowne there Demands unto y^ Convention (or as many as would appear) in y^ Toune house and y* Rest of y* Inhabitants according to Direction of a letter there Delivered and fynde no Satisfaction to my Proposealls, likewise haveing Discoursed some Points more Particularly with them, whereupon it was apointed y* I should Present y* Same in writeing this afternoon accordingly I offer Vizt