you'' [pefs] humbly prayes yo^ hon^^ consideration in the premises And that yo'" honor's will order the said action to cease till the time lymited in tlie proclamacon be expired, And in the meane time to Consider some way to ease yo' peti"s from the whole burthen thereof, by ordering sattisfaction to be made to the said plowman by the publique or by Allotting each person that was concerned therein to pay their E quail proporceons of the same And yo^ pefs in Dv* bound will ever pray &,c* Endorsed,

Petition of the Persons on Staten Island Claimed ags* & P: sented by

Plowma?

LIEUT GOV. LEISLER. 397

APOLONIA WELCH'S DEPOSITION.

Aprill 19*^ 1693. Apolonia Welch reports that an Indian who gives himselfe the name of Cap"^ Billop Sunday the 16'ii instant Declared that the number of 350 Indians of Hagen Sack and Tapan would make war against Newyorke for the blood of Leisler that nothing but a sume of money should make satisfaccon that when his Excelly went for Philadelphia the action will beginn and that the Indian was sober when he spoake these words and further says that as the Govern"' passed her mothers house in his coach in the time of this discourse she told him there was the man they were talking of commending His Excelly for a brave man the Indian said it would then be the better for him and that notwithstanding his horses two would be sufficient to dispatch him

And further saith That another Indian came in whom he saluted by the name of Captain Busch who asked him why he did play the fool to tell what they had designed and took him by the hand and conveyed him away And that on Tuesday the IS^h in the morning another Indian came in to her mothers house to whom her mother said what had passed on Sunday the 16'ii that the Indians were to make warr with the English he replyed it was true but they would not doe any harm to her.