You are to Saile vf^^ all Speed directly for Canada & Quebeck their to alarm y® french & to make what Conquest possibly you Can by Sea & land & to Stay there for a whole month & if no Conquest then Cruze upon y® terra neuf Banckes for some Prises & for that time & place you are to obey Cap^ W*" Mason your admirall but from ye bankes you are to repaire to this Port wt^i y« goods & Prises if any gott for Condemnacion Given under say hand at fort W™ In New Yorke this 2Gth day of May 1690.

This is a true copy of y® or^" received by me from ye L^ Governor of New Yorke w^^ I promise faithfully to observe & obey in every thing to y® utmost of my power as witness my hand ye day & year above written

FFRANCIS GoEDERIS

Signed Jacob Leislsr Sealed & D.D. In ye presence of

Abrah™ Gouvemeur

Similar orders were given to Capt Bollen

252 ADMINISTRATION OF

LEISLER TO MAJOR WALLEY

LDate, about 20th May, K^'M] Sir -- The prisoner Lafores having been knowen here to have committed a murder & condemned at new Bristell being catched and evident proofeas above deposed, have thought convenient to send to you by Capt. Anthony Low that the s^ Condeinnatione may be executed, I hope before now your promised forces may be at Albany, If not we with you may receive desperate disappointments I have here a french knight who was sent to doe your and our busines by our Indianes, and if we had been of such slow motion as we find new England is, he had certainly prevailed to our utter mine, I referre you further to Mr. Low, & remaine &e.