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The Schout John Ogden and Secretary Samuell Hopkins are this day ordered to take an Inventory of the Estate of the late Governor Carteret, and to report the result.

The Worshipful Orphan Masters of this city of New Orange are requested and authorized to summon before them the Curators of the estate left by deceased Richard Moris^[1] and Walter Webley, and to require of them administration of that estate and as soon as possible to make a report thereof.

Captain Knyff, Lieutenant Jeronimus Hubert and the clerk Ephraim Hermans being commissioned on the 29th of August last to administer the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the undernamed Towns on Long Island, returning this day, report and deliver in by list the names and number of the inhabitants of said towns, amounting as follows:

Midwout, 73 men, all of whom took the oath of allegiance.
Amesfoort, 48 men, all of whom have taken the oath.
Breukelen and dependencies, 81 men, 52 of whom have taken the oath; the remainder are ordered to take it from the Magistrates.
New Utrecht, 41 men, all of whom have taken the oath.
Bushwyck, 35 men, all of whom have taken the oath except Humphrey Clay who is a Quaker.
Gravesend, 31 men, all of whom have taken the oath.
Hemstede, 107 men, 51 of whom have taken the oath; the remainder ordered to do so before their Schout and Secretary.
Flushing, 67 men, 51 of whom have taken the oath; the remainder absent, are ordered as above. Among these are 20 Dutch.
Rustdorp, 63 men, 53 of whom have taken the oath; the remainder absent, are ordered as above.
Middelborgh, 99 men, 53 of whom have taken the oath; the remainder absent, are ordered as above.
The Proclamation respecting the seizure of all houses, lands, goods and effects, together with outstanding debts in this country belonging to the King of England and his subjects, is this day also sent up to Willemstadt and Esopus to be there made public in like form as hereinbefore registered in date 18th August.

Note.— Johannes Provoost is authorized to keep an account thereof at Willemstadt and William Montague at the Esopus.

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