I cannot omit stating here that the late Commissary Adriaen Keyser and Augustin

Heerman going hence to Rhode Island in New England, on the 14"' April, Ensign George Baxter gave them a letter for William Coddington,' Governor there, which letter the Court or Assembly of the people of Rhode Island intercepted and opened, accusing the bearers of it with the Governor and their Director, the abovenamed Tienhoven and Baxter, of conspiracy and treason against the State of New England, inasmuch as, among other things, the Director

active friend to (he Dutch, whom he more than once seasonably notified of the designs of the English. He wnsa Magistrate of Plymouth from 1651 to 1664, when, at the request of Colonel Nichols, he accompanied the expedition against the Dutch Colonj'. On the change of the Charter of the city of New-York to an English form, in 1665, Captain Willett was appointed its first Mayor,and held that office again in 1667, in the course of which year, 'tis presumed, be returned to New England and settled at Rehoboth or Swansey, ( now in the town of Seeconck, ) Mass., where he died on the 3d August, I6T4. {£a;//ies' Historical Memoirs of Plymouth, II., 235, 236 New Englatid Genealogical Register, IX., 318 ; Valentine's Manual ) ; A plain monument marks the spot where his ashes repose. WaLiAM CoDDiNGiON was a native of Lincolnshire, England, and arrived at Salem, Massachusetts, in the Arabell.i, 12 June, '

1630. He continued in the Magistracy until 1637, and in the following year relinquished his advantageous position as Merchant, at Boston, and removed to Rhode Island, of the settlement of which place he was the principal instrument. He was chosen Governor of that Colony in 1640, and for the seven succeeding years. He went to England in 1651, and was commissioned Governor of Aquetneck Island, separate from the other part of the Colony, about the period referred to in the text.