His Excellency Communicated to the Council a Letter from Henry Filkin Esq^ High Sherif of Dutchess in answer to liis Excellency's of the fifth Instant acquainting his Excellency that he went on y^ 17*^ to Shacomico a place in the remotest part of that County inhabited Chiefly by Indians where also Hve Gudlop Bydner, Hendrick Joachim Senseman and Joseph Shaw tliree Moravian priests with theii* Familyes in a Block House and Sixteen Indian Wigwams round about it, the two first were at home whereupon he acquainted them with his Excellency's Order And they promised to set out the 24'*^ Instant and that he perceiv'd nothing disorderly there.

EXAMINATION OF THE MORAVIANS.

At a Council held at the Council Chamber in the City of New York the first day of August 1744. Present His Excellency the Governour Mf Chief Justice M"" Horsmanden

M"^ Cortlandt M^" Murray.

The Moravian priests sent for from Dutchess County attending according to order Joseph Shaw was Called in and Examined and said That he was born in little Ryder Street near S* James's that liis Fatlier was a Carpenter, and that he was brought up and Communicated with the Chui'ch of England and was twenty five years old when he came over That he had been in America two years that he came over in Cap" Gladman's Ship and went first to Bethlekem in pensylvania and tlience to tliis place.

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That he was design'd for a Clergyman of the Church of England but was prevented by sickness and then learnt to Surve^ and measure Houses.