the said Captain Leisler did -Act accordingly & was owned to be Commander in Chief by all the inhabitants both of the City & Country, Except Some who were disaffected & had opposod the revolution & further salth that about the tenth of December following a Messinger arrived with a letter from his Majesty directed to Francis Nicholson Esqr & in his absence to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace & administring the laws of the said province of New York long before which the said Captain Nicholson was departed & the said Captain Leisler had the government without the opposition of any others but upon the Comming of the said Letters, this deponant Saith M' Frederick Vlypson & Stephanus Van Courtlandt did demand the same as having been Members of the said Captain Nicholson's Council, but the said Messinger & the said M"^ Flypson & Van Courtlandt went next day to the Said Captain Leisler in the fort Amongst whom it was debated to whom the said letter did properly belong & ought to be delivered, whereupon the said Messenger did deliver the Said letter to the said Captain Liesler who afterwards caused the same to be published in the City & was thereupon with general Applause again acknowledged by the people to be commander in Chief, after which this deponent being Absent from the said Province, did not return there again till the Month of May last when Capt^ Leisler M^ Milborne & Six Others were in prison under the sentence of Death for some pretended Murder & treason & this deponent did Afterwards see the said Captain Leisler & M^ Milborne put to Death Accordingly. & this Deponent saith that the Said Captain Leisler upon the proclamation of their Majesties did Cause the inhabitants, to take the Oaths of allegince to King William & Queen Mary, this deponent then taking the same himself -- & that the said Captain Leisler, before the said revolution was a Merchant of a very good Estate both real & personal & had very great dealings & during his government did Expend great sums of his own Money for their Majesties Service & the defence of The province, & further doth not depose --