By His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York ... A proclamation[.] : Whereas the proprietors of East-New-Jersey have been very pressing with the Right Honourable, the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, to have the priviledge of a port at Perth-Amboy ... Given at Fort William Henry the twenty fourth day of May, 1698 ...