GOV- LEISLER. 279

BY THE LIEYT GOVERN'^

Whereas Gerrit Elbertse Stoothof Liev* of y^ troop of horse of Kings County on Long Island has in a Contemptuous manner denied y® Comand of his Capt" Roelof Martense Schenck Espetially when y« enemies where Invading & Comitting severall outrages on this Coast by w<^h it evidently appeares y^ s^ Garret Elbertse Stoothof hes ill affeccon to this his Maj*'®^ Governm* & is not to be trusted in Comand: --

These are therefore to will and require you in his Maj*''^^ name to dismis & discharge the s«i Liev* of having any further Comand of s^ troop of horse & to deliver my Comission for Liev* to Pieter Jansen of Brookland for doing whereof these are yo^

sufficient Warr* Given &c this 29th July 1690

Jacob Leisler To Major Gerardus Beekman Esq*"

Albany July 31 169<)

Articles made agreed upon considered between John De Bruyn John Provoost & Jacob Melbourne Commissioners appoynted by the honble Levt Governor Jacob Leisler & Councill for the province of New Yorke of the one part, and the honble John Winthrop Esq"^ of the other part witnesseth --

That the s^ John Winthrop Esq^ do receive a commission from the s^ Lievt Governor to command in Chiefe all the forces now raised or to be raised for the Expedition of Albany ag* the french at Canada, within the province of New York & the Collonies of New England etc. under certane conditions following vizt : --

That the s^ Lievt Governor for himself or any deputed or empowered by him or by his means shall at no tyme or tymes hereafter issue forth or cause to be sent after or impose on the s<i Comniander in Chiefe any order or orders direction or directions tending to any contradicting or repugnant to the true intent & meaning of the s*^ commission or the result which was concluded by the s*^* commissioners convened at New York May the first last past --