As to the Public Books of Records, so important to your Titles and Estates in all Parts of the Colony and formerly lodged in the Secretarie's Office, I understand that they were separated from the Rest by the provident Circumspection of my Predecessor, whose merits are above my Applause and have often had yours ; and having been afterwards sent Home for safe Custody, you may rely upon their being carefully preserved, and duly returned as soon as the Common tranquility is restored.

I now call upon every Individual in the Colony, to shew his Allegiance, Fidelity and Patriotism, by affording his Assistance _ towards accomplishing the Kings most gracious Design of restor-

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ing the Blessings of Peace and Good Government: And they who shall most distinguish themselves by their laudable Efforts for these good Purposes will most assuredly best recommend

themselves to the Royal Approbation and Favour. Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the Province of New York in the City of New York, the Fifteenth Day of April 1780, in the Twentieth

' Year of his Majesty's Reign.

James ROBERTSON. By his Excellency's Command,

Sam Bayarp Jun? D. Sec'y. God save the King.

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Wher is Tuts InpIAW GRAMMAR AND Dicrionary?--Father Andrew White, an English Jesuit, came to Maryland as a Missionary to the Indians in 1633. Alegambe in his work (in the State Lib:) entitled, Mortes illustres et gesta eorum de Soc. Jesu, p. 32, states, that the worthy father had prepared with. great pains a Grammar, Dictionary and Catechism of the tribe among whom he labored. He had in hands, when Alegambe wrote, Expeditionem et Historiam ejus gentis. It were well if enquiries were made for these MSS. by the Representatives of the United States at Rome and London.