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firm<?d in his said government by Your Majestys said Royal letter did faitlifully observe Your Majestys Command thereby declared, & did in all respects provide for the security of the said Province as well Against All Attempts of the french (who are very powerfull in those parts) as papists & other disaffected persons of which there were many resident in the said province, that upon the 28* January last past Captain Richard Ingoldesby arrived at New York with some Soldiers from England to whom Your Petitioners Said father offered all sorts of accommodations but the said Ingoldesby required the possession of the said fort & Government for which Your Petitioners Father desired to see his orders, being ready to Obey the same if he had any Such from your Majesties or Colonel Sloughter who your Majesties had been pleased to make Govenor, but the said Ingoldesby, had no such Orders or would not produce the same, whereupon your petitioners Said father having advised with the principal inhabitants was councelled & directed by them t^ Keep & Maintain the possession of the said fort & government (in regard the Ingoldesby would not Shew his orders to receive the same) until the Govenor arrived or your Majesty's further pleasure was known That Ingoldesby thereupon joining himself to papists & other disaffected persons did by many indirect means to the great terror of Your Majesties liege Subjects in a hostile & dreadful Manner assemble great numbers of french & other persons &, beseiged the said fort Divers batteries Against the same & so continued in Arms about Six Weeks, that on the 19**" March last Colonel Sloughter did Arrive & as soon as Your Petitioners father had certain Knowledge thereof which was not till 11 oClock that night he did Send the Mayor of the City & M' Milborne his Secretary from the said fort to Wait Upon him & to offer him the possession thereof but the said Col.