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The following is the roll of the officers of militia elected and sworn in by Captain Knyff and Lieutenant Snel, by order of the Council of War:

Elizabethtown: Jacob Molyn, Captain; Isaac Whithead, Lieutenant; John Woodrof, Ensign.

New Worke: Samuel Swaine, Captain; John Ward, Lieutenant; Samuel Kitchell, Ensign.

Woodbridge: John Pike, Captain; John Bishop, Lieutenant; Samuel Dennis, Ensign.

Pisscattaway: Bennayah Dunham, Captain; Joseph Snow, Lieutenant; John Longstaf, Ensign.

Middeltowne: Jonathan Hulmes, Captain; John Smith, Lieutenant; Thomas Whitlock, Ensign.

Schrousbury: William Newman, Captain; John Williamson, Lieutenant; Nicles Browne, Ensign.

At a Meeting of the Commanders and Honorable Council of War, holden on the l5th of September, 1673.

Present—  Commander Jacob Benckes, 
Commander Cornelis Evertsen, Junior, 
Captain Anthony Colve. 

Captain Lavall is at his request allowed to have his daughter, Margriet Lavall, and his brother-in-law, Edward Dy[ er ], conveyed hence to Seakonck in the sloop the Planter, on condition of giving sufficient security for the restoration of the sloop within the space of 3 weeks.

The petition of Martin Cregier being taken up and read, it is ordered as follows:

First: The Petitioner is permitted and hereby authorized to collect the Great Excise until the lst of May, 1674. The provisions which the Petitioner will deliver at Fort Nassouw[1] shall be paid for out of the excise already due and the debts and goods belonging to Captain Thomas Lavall, whereof the Petitioner shall by the first opportunity transmit a list to the Governor, when further disposition shall be made in the premises. Dated Fort Willem Hendrick, as above.

It was at the same time understood, that the Petitioner shall meanwhile be at liberty to trade certain goods for peltries, as he shall deem most profitable; the Petitioner is also authorized and qualified with the Commander, Officers and Commissaries of Fort Nassouw, to search for the property of Thomas d'Lavall and other officers, and to make the same known to the Governor. Ady, as above.

Notes

Now Albany. — Ed.

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Translation: O'Callaghan, E.B., trans./ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, vol. 2 (Albany: Weed, Parsons: 1858), pp. 569-730 (vol. 23, pp. 1-270 only).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.