SR—Although we have heard of yo'r actions at Yorke, yet because the chief trust of those parts did reside in other hands, from whom you have too sudainly supiprzed it, we made it o'r business to attend what was devolved upon o'rselves that way nextly, yet we understanding you content not yo'rselves with what you have already taken, but demand submission of the people, his Majesty's subjects, seated on Long Island eastward beyond Oister Bay ; and have seised a vessel of Mr. Sillicks, one of o'r people, near one of o'r Harbours; we have therefore sent Mr. James Richards, and Mr. William Roswell, to know your further intentions; and we must let you know yt we and o'r confederates, the United Colonies of New England, are by our Royall Soveraign, Charles the second, made keepers of his subjects liberties in these parts, and doe hope to acquit o'rselves in that trust, through the assistance of Almighty God, for the preservation of his Majesty's Colonies in New England—Which is all at the pr'sent repr'sented to you, from the Govern'r and Gen'll Assembly of the Colony of Connecticutt. Signed pr their order pr me,

JOHN ALLYN, Secret'ry.

For the Commander in Cheife of the Dutch Fleet, rideing in Hudsons River at New Yorke.