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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 353 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And as the Governor of Fort Christina, named John Rising, so unjustly filched the possession of the aforesaid fort in the year 1654, from this State and the Company, as already narrated, and as nothing was to be expected but that he would undertake a similar attempt after the departure of the aforesaid Director-General, the latter, therefore, summoned the aforesaid Fort Christina, and obtained possession thereof in like manner, without any bloodshed, on the So"" of the same month, according to the capitulation hereunto annexed,