By His Excellency Coll. Benjamin Fletcher, captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York, &c. A proclamation[.] : Forasmuch as sundry of His Majesties subjects ... Given under my hand at His Majesties fort in New-York, the eleventh day of May ... annoq; Domini 1696.
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