Wee [Expect] each howre'to be attaqut by y« Enemy, [See] that you send ye hke Warning to the Townes of Flushing and Newtowne [for the ] Dueing whereof t!iis shall be yo'' Warrt Dated at New York this 29ii' day of July 1G73 at nine o'clock at night.

To M^" W'n Osborne These

ENS. CIIIRSTON TO MANNL\G.

Worshippfull S"^ Yours we Receiued by M'"- Osburn upon w'Ch the Towne ar much Amaz^' and Trubled that they should be totally destitute of men : yet notwithstanding oihsers haue don tliere utermoste In Obedience to yo^ Comand They haue Requird all tliere souldiers [to be in readiness] expecting the Coming of the other townes according to yo^ Worships order

100 RESTORATION OF NEW-YORK TO THE ENGLISH.

but we make bould to Inlbrme you The Towne is altogether destitute of powder and shott whereby the conceiue themselves very vncapable [to proceed] without Eminent danger but we ' shall do our [best] sir this destracted time so far as our power and [capability] will Reach : We haue sent two messengers on purpose to bring vs farther Intelligence There are thretening sp[eeches] newly proseeded from the Dutch Amongst us wherby we conceiue ourselfes in great danger : When the Towne is [left exposed] by the Absence of all the men We rest your Worships

Seruants Sam Ruscoe

Joseph Chirston. Jamaica this dO^^ July 1673.

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®l)e 0taU of Edigion

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1G57-1712.

STATE OF THE CPIUECHES IN NEW NETHEKLAND ; ANNO 1657.