Honorable sirs -- I received yours last night & am in expectatione of the other gentlemen, tell them I cannot be able to answer your honors Just request onely I rather choose to fall in the hands of the Lord then man, & find not that house fitt for such generall & great concernes, but we can propose one two milles of the toun a good & nett house by Capt. Arian Cornelis where no small pox is, but God be thanked the infection is not so great nor mortall as it is represented to you, the bearer shall take care to inform e you &c.

Albany ye 17*^ day of March 1689 Present

J: H: Bruyn ^ Joh: Provoost V Com^" Jac: Milborne \ Pr Schuyler Mayoi d: wessells Joh: wendel Levinus v: ShaykI JanJ:Bleeker ^ ^^^ Alb* Ryckman Kiliaen v: Rens: Marte gerritse Wee the Commissions^ of the Leift governeur of y® Province of N: York, and his Councill find it verry nessesery that y^ Comp® of Souldiers sent by The Colonic of Conettekot under Comand of Capt Jonathan Bull ought to Remaine here, In Reguard of

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our Curcumstances Concerning the french and there Confedereths, and the alliwed Indians being Ingaged\vith us haveing taken notis what forces wee are able to Continue for their Incouragement, after debatting & Consulting with advysof the gent"! Present doe Conclude that y^ s^^ Capt. Bull with his s'l Comp® of Souldiers shall Remaine in this Citty & County of alb: so Long* as his Majcs Intrest & the Preserving of this Post Requires By order of y« Commissioners