Governor Johan Rising together with all superior and inferior officers, servants and soldiers shall march out with drum beating, fife playing, colors flying, match lighting,

bullets in the mouth, with hand and side arms, first to Timber Island,' whither the people, after they will have left the fort, shall be safely conveyed, and lodge in the houses there until the departure in the ship Waeg of the Governor who with his suite and property shall at furthest within the space of fourteen days, be safely and certainly conveyed and brought to

' Near Wilmington, Delaware. Its precise location is laid down in plan of the town of Christina, in T. Campanius Holm's ifya Swerige, 81, and in Memoirs of Pennsylvania Historical Society, III., pt. i., 84. --Ed,

608 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Sandyhook, situate five leagues outside the Manliatans. Meanwhile Governor Rising and Factor Elsvvyck shall be allowed to remain with four or five servants, so long in the fort, for

the purpose of arranging their affairs. 3.

All writings, letters, documents and actes belonging to the Crown of Sweden, the Southern Company or to private persons, found in Fort Christina, remain untouched, undisturbed and unexamined in the Governor's hands, to carry them away whithersoever he pleases. 4.

None of the officers, soldiers, servants or freemen of the Crown of Sweden or of the Southern Company, sliall be detained against their will, but be allowed to depart with the Governor, free and unhindered, if they please. 5.

All ministers, ofl[icers, soldiers and freemen of the Crown of Sweden and Southern Company, shall retain their proper movables, unhindered and uninjured.