and also ashure you as I now doe that if M"" Colve or any of yo « 01- Ships should nott be Ready to goe on Bord, or Saile, that you shall not onely have all kindnesse as is dayly Practised att Home, butt myselfe, Ready to Sarve you upuu all occacons to my Power : So nott Doubting yo"" Considering things as they your present Resolve, Conformable to friendship & orders of Superri's & desiring y Answer by these Jentlemen, I am in Reality

From Abord his Maty^ ship The Diamond, at Anker neare Yo^ Friend & Humble Servant Staten Island ; 23th Oct'-er 1674.

. Signed Ed"» Andros.

GOV. ANDROS TO GOV. COLVE.

Sr. -- I received yo^" yesterday in the Evening in answer to mme by the hands of Capt Philip Carteret Matthias Nicolls & Eusigne Csesar Knapton.

You tell me That you hoped & did not doubt but within the space of eight days you would be ready pursuant to ye Articles of peace and Instructions to Surrender ye place now under yo": Command

If the Time for ye Surrender had beene certainly prefixt & by a Lesse space, I should not have had [tiie necessity of] giving you this farther Trouble. Now once againe by the same Gentleman I Desire you to lett me [know with certainty when] I ^ my forces may pursuant both to your Sf my Orders [take possession of t^iej Fort and Government you now are [comnia7idvi g] 1 alsoe wish you will take into yor Co^mideration to^ pitch upon a shorter time then you have proposed :