Assembled the Sheriff and Commissaries of the Village Wildwyck and handed them the letter sent to them by the Hon?!e Director General and Council and discharged Sheriff Swartwout. from his office and put |Mattheus Capito] provisionally in his place and presented him to the Court of Wildwyck according to order, whom the 'said Commissaries congratulated and were well pleased with; they promised honestly to obey what the Heer Director Genera] and Council have been pleased to order. A party was sent to the Great Plot to eut oats which happened to be late in ripening, as an opportunity

1 Qu.--What is now Teller's point.

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now presented to cut itand draw it home. The farmers thrashed some of it also, and the vijm [a hundred and four sheafs] produced five skepels of clean oats.

25 ditto. Tuesday. Nothing happened except that Rey ntfe Pieters came from the river side- he informs us the kill at the Redoubt was still fast.

26th ditto. No occurrence.

27'n ditto. A party was out on the Great' Plot hatling stone ; nothing else occurred.

28th ditto. The Captain and Lieutenant of the Burghery of Wiltwyck requested to have a drum according to the promise given them by the Heer General. By permission of the Military Council a Drum and appurtenances were given to the officers of the burghery of Wildwyck. A party was down to the river side to see if circumstances would admit of the sloop leaving the kill. The party returned and stated that there was no way as yet to go out of the kill.