May it Please your Excellency.

The Attorney Generall hath Perufed this Pattent and finds nothing Contained therein Prejudicall to his Maties Interest. JA: GRAHAM. Examd 9mber 30th 1686.

Att a Councill held att ffort James the fixth day of December 1686.

Present His Excellency the Governour.
Major Antho: Brockholls.

Mr Fredrick Fflipfon.

Mr Steph V. Courtland.
Mr John Spragge

Major Gervis Baxter.
This Pattent was approved off
J. SWINTON Clk Councill.

Royal Order for the Surrender of Pemaquid to Massachusetts

James R.

[Deeds viii-75]

Trusty & well beloved wee Greet you well. Whereas wee have thought fitt to direct that our ffort & Country of Pema

quid in Regard of its distance from New Yorke bee for the future annexed to & Continued under the Governmt of our territory & dominion of New England our will & pleasure is that you forthwith Deliver or cause to be delivered our faid ffort & Country of Pemaquid with the Greate Gunns' ammunicón & ftores of warr together with all other vtenfills & appurtennces belonging to the said ffort into the hands of our trusty & welbeloved St Edmund Androfs Knight our Captaine Generall & Governour in Cheife of our territory & dominion of New England or to the Governour or Commander in Cheife there for the time being or to fuch person or persons as they fhall Impower to receiue the fame and for foe doing this fhall be your warrtt.

Given at our Court at Windfor this 19th day of Sept 1686 & in the second yeare of our Reigne.

By his Maties Comand

SUNDERLAND Cl.

1 The Great Guns from the Fort at Pemaquid, after being carried to Boston, were by order of the King in the spring of 1691, transferred to New York. (N. Y. Coll. MSS. xxxvii.)

Remonftrance against Surrender of Pemaquid c.

[Council Minutes v. 221.]

Council Held at ffort James Wednsday ye 28th of March 1688

Resolved that an adress to his Majtie be Drawn up giveing his Majtie an account that this Goverment has bin much Diminished by takeing away Pemaquid the Jerseys Penfylvania and the three Lower Countys of Delawar. That this is the Bulwarke of all these partes of America that the Revenue is but fmall yett the Charges very great.

That Connetticut in his Majties Pattent from Chares ye 2a is added to Boston by ye Contrivance of the Governo' of it & the Clerke of the Collony & unknown to ye Major parte of ye Collony

That ye ffrench warr has Stopt ye beaver trade fo y without fome speedy help this place will be Ruined.

Notices of Indian Hoftilities

[New-York Colonial MSS. xxxvii.]

Extract from a letter of John Easton of Rhode Island to Col Henry Sloughter Governor of New York; dated June 24. 1691.

Wee have intelligence that the Eastward indians & fome ffrench have made an afault vpon ye garifons in and neere the Towne of Wells and have killed about fix persons therabout. They drove their Cattell together & killed them before their faces.

Notice of Capture of Pemaquid by French and Indians

[Council Minutes vii. 213.]

At a Councel held at his Maties ffort in New Yorke the 23th of August 1696.

His Excell did Communicate intelligence from Boston that the two ffrench Shipps that took the Newport Galley with the affistance of the Indians have taken Pemaquid ffort & that it is reported by one of the Capts that Count frontenac has orders to take Albany & Schenectady with intelligence of a great Squadron of Ships lately feen upon the coast of Jamaica.