A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 29
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Alb. Rec. vol. xxi. 80. t See preceding c'ocuments. 166 HISTORY OF THE with the promises made by them, to dispose if possible, the in-habitants to make a new nomination of magistrates, and due obedience, resolved to let them return for the present time, and the following letter to the inhabitants was delivered to them. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 12th May, 1663.=^ The letter delivered to the magistrates by Governor Stiiy-vesant. " Whereas, wee by the bearers, your present magistrates were informed, which in part your letters (subscribed by one Richard Mills) doe confirm, that the nomination for new magistrates at due time by them, were propounded at a town meeting, but hitherto differed through some unacceptable orders of Hartford's assembly, this, therefore, are to require and to order you and every one that are inhabitants of your towne, that I shall not attend any of