These are to authorise Empower & Constitute you Mrs Joannes de Bruyn Joannes Provoost & Jacob Melbourne to take into your care and under your directions& Comand all y® forces nowraised in N: York and adjacent Countyes w*'' all ammunicon & provisions thereunto apointed & forthw^h proceed from hence to Albany afores'i where you are to Super Intend direct Order and CoutrouU all matters & things relating his Ma^'es Interest & revenue in that County & y® Security & Safety of his people & subjects therein by treating w^h ye Confederate Indians and other Such Methods & Meanes as to you shall seem meet that may Conduce to y® End before menconed likewise to proclaime their' publishing their gracious Orders & denounce war agst ye frencb King &'=^ Subduing Reducing and bringing to their obedience all such who oppose y« same & to settle & establish y^ s*! County in ye Same Method & Constitution as this his Ma^'^s City & County of N. York & others thereunto apertaining & further you are to obtaine y® fort Orange at Albany from those of y® Convencon & there adherents by due sumons offering them such Condicons as may be Agreable to y^ End aboves*^, but in case of resistance then you are to treat them as Ennemies to o^ Sovereigne Lord y" King his Crowne & dignity y® same to Subdue & over Come by force of Arms & all manner of Hostility whatsoever willing and Comanding all psons within the County afores'l to Be aiding and assisting therein as they will Answer y* Contrary at their utmost perills' hereby giving & granting unto you full power & authority to Consult Act do & conclude all matters & things for or concerning his Mamies Interest & y^ Welfare of and Security of that county as yfi case shall require & to your judgem* shall seem requisite, conferming ratifieng & establishing whatsoever you shall so act or do in ye prmisses to Be good Valid & of full force & virtue to all