Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. II

That the honor & service of God be maintained & divine worship be performed publickly every day, the Lords day duly observed, vice discountenanced & due decorum preserved amongst them.

ffinally that the Sd Commander in Chiefs shall [have] power to administer doe execute & performe all matters relating [to] life or other censures (as the caise shall or may require) with as ample power & virtue, & in mannar form & purpose as any field marshall may or ought to doe with a regular army or greater body of men, --

*LEISLEIl'S COMMISSION APPOINTING JOHN WINTHROP TO BE COMMANDER OF THE FORCES AGAINST THE FRENCH.

Jacob Leisler Esq^ Lu* Gov & commander in Chiefe of the Prouince of New Yorke and dependencies in Americah, under His most Sacred Ma*'® King W™ of England, Scotland, France & Ireland &c, defender of the fayth, supreme Lord of the Sayd province & dependencies in America, &c. To the Hon^'ie John Winthrop Esq"^ Greeting. By vertue of the authority deriued unto me, I do hereby constitute & appoynt you to be major of all the forces now raysed or to be raysed for the expedition of Albany out of this Province & the New England Collonyes & Maryland, according to the unanimous result made with sayd Collonyes against the French at Cannada ; you are therefore carefully and dilligently to discharge the duty of a major, by exerciseing the same in Armes & keeping them in good [Seall] order & discipline, both officers & Souldiers, observing