Signed Daniel De Klerck Jurat 24 die Feby. 1691 coram me magro cancell

This is truly Translated by me

Ant. Wright, Not. 169i

Jacob Williams of Chancery Lane in the Liberty of the Rolls in the County of Middle Sex Aged Seven & twenty Years or thereabouts maketh oath that he this deponent before the month

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of May 1689 & from that time to about the Month of May 3691. was resident in New York in America & that upon the late revolution the Inhabitants of New York aforesaid not being Satisfied of the Strength of the Garrison & not Kno\N-ing whether the powder there was good proof 15. of the Burghers made application to the Council & Mayor and Alderman that care might b^ taken of the Powder in the fort, to know whether it was good, & that the Garrison might be fortified (for fear of being Surprised in Case of an Enemy) & that the Garrison being but Small the inhabitants themselves offered & were admitted to do Duty in the fort as it came to their turns, that the Captains never came upon duty in the fort but sent a Lieut & that whilst this deponent was in the fort one Lieut Henry Cuyler commanded a Gentry, one of the burghers to be set upon a Sally port whereupon the Corporal of the Garrison asked him what he had to do there or to that Effect who replyed he was set there by his Officer, the Corporal & Lieut of the Burghers was sent for by the Governor & after his return the Lieut of the Burghers ordered his men to be at Arms all night, that the next morning a Coimcil of war was called, the Lieut was called before them and discharged of his as he told the