, ■:; '^ Thomas Taylor ,, mark

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Thamis Martin

Uifv. Honored Sir

Wee liumbly Desr and request that you wold be plesed to send vs a Court Booke and those 12 Mvskets which yo" spak of with the rest of the ammounishon for the use and safgard of ovr plantation with the orders and Laws which we are to walk by

that wee may know how to akt

Thomas

from Este towne the 1 of Jenuary 1656. Newman.

PETITION FROM N. ROCHELLE.

To his Excellency Coll Benjamin Fletcher Govern^ in Chief and Capt Gen'al of y^ province of New York and dependences &°

The humble petition of y« inhabitants of NewRochelle Humbly Sheweth

That your petitioners having been forced by the late persecutions in franco to forsake their country & estates, And flye to y® protestant Princes. Their Majestyes by their proclamation of ye 25*'i of Aprill 1689, did grant them an azile in all their dominions, with tlieir Royall protection ; wlierefore they were invited to come and buy lands in this province, to the end that they might by their labour help the necessity es of their familyes, and

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Did spend therein all their smale store, with the help of their friends, wliereof they did borrow great sums of money. They are above twenty poor and needy, not able

{MS. torn) ties and cloatliing, much

they did hitherto beare above their thereby reduced to a lamentable condition, as having been compelled to sell, for that purposs, the things which were most necessary for their use. Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray.