Sir, -- I cannot but admire to hear that some Gentlemen still have a good Opinion of the Late Disorders committed by Captain Jacvb Leiskr Si, his Accomplices, in New York, as if they had been for his Majesties Service & the Security of that Province ; & that such monstrous falsehoods do find Credit, That the person before in Commission, & did labour to oppose & prevent those disorders were Jacobites, or persons ill affected to the happy revolution in England, But it has been often the Calamity of all Ages [to] Palliate Vice with false Glosses, & to criminate the best Actions of the most virtuous & most pious men -- So that the truth & Inncency, without some defence, has not proved at all times a Sufficient Bullwark against malitious falsehoods & Calumnies, wherefore I shall endeavor to give you a true & brief Account of that matter, As I myself have been a personal Witness to most of them --

It was about the Beginning of April 1689. when the first Reports arrived at New York, that the Prince of Orange, now his present majesty was arrived in England, with a considerable Force & that the late King James was fled into France & that it was expected war would be soon proclaimed between England & France --

The Lieut Govenor, Francis Nicholson & the Council being Protestants, resolved thereupon to Suspend all Roman Catholicks from Command & Places of Trust in the government & accordingly suspended Major Baxter from being a member of Council & Captain of a Company at Albany & Bartholomew Russell from being Ensign in the fort at New York, they both being Papists, who forthwith left their command & departed the province -- & because but three members of the Councill were residing in New York viz, M'' Frederick Phillips Colonel Siephanus Corflandt & CoP Nicholas Bayard all of Dutch birth, all Members, & the two last for near thirty years past.