The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series, Volume 1New York Historical Society, 1868 |
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Abraham Gouverneur afterwards Albany Andros Andross appointed arms arrived assembly attainders authority Bayard Bellomont bill Boston Burnet Capt Leisler Captain Citty Coll Colonies Commander in Chief Commander Leisler Commission Committee condemned Cortlandt Council Court declared defence delivered demand deponent Dutch enemy England Estates executed Fletcher Francis Nicholson Francis Rombouts French further saith gave Governor grant humbly Indians inhabitants Jacob Leisler Jacob Milborne Jacobites John Joseph Dudley justice King James King William land late letter Libeller Lieut Lord Majesty major Ingoldesby Majties Mary militia N. Y. City Nicholson officers Papists Parliament Parliament of England peace persons petition petitioners possession pounds Prince of Orange proclaimed Protestant province Queen refused Revolution Richard Ingoldsby royal sd Capt Selyns sent severall shew ship Slaughter soldiers Stephanus Van Cortlandt thereof thereupon tion ye fort ye sd Yorcke York in America
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Page 1 - Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations...
Page 300 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 176 - That their business shall be to hear and adjust all matters of complaint or difference between province and province.
Page 325 - Nicholson, or, in his absence, to " such as, for the time being, take care for preserving the peace and administering the law
Page 176 - ... here to do; for the provinces, knowing their own condition and one another's, can debate that matter with more...
Page 299 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; Defenders of the Faith ; Princes of Spain and Sicily ; Archdukes of Austria ; Dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant ; Counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol...
Page 300 - Captain, and you to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from us, Our Governor of...
Page 92 - Majesty's Treasury. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIPS, In obedience to your Lordships...
Page 300 - States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you.
Page 38 - ... and idle, and the people in some sort quieted, yet •others like Hydra's head sprung up in their places, to ye great disquiet of this Government, and it was rationally believed that the difficulties of keeping this Dominion free from tumults, divisions and depredations would have been insuperable had not the news of the happy accession of the Prince and Princess of Orange to the Crown of England arrived here, with orders from their...