Boston, [Mass.] 27 March 1690 My Lord Being sent hither by the Magistracy of the Citty [inserted: & County] of Alb[any] to Treat wth. the authority of those Collonies & to Implore there assistance in such a juncture when the french are so active & we sitt still in a manner and suffer them to committ all the outrages Imagineable, I Presume to give yr Lord[shi]p the trouble of these few lines wherein [inserted: have] inclosed copies of our Transactions which will give yr Lord[shi]p full Information of all affares with us; We would long ine now given yr Lord[shi]p an acct. of our Condition had we not dayly Expected a gov[erno]r From his Maje[sty] to Put a [struck: end] [inserted: Period] to these distractions & divisions which [inserted: am afraid will] Ruine the Country. We of Albany [inserted: have been hitherto here] the finest [inserted: of its] of any of our neighbours for assoon as we Recd. the [inserted: Joyfull] news of there Maje[sties] king Wm & queen Marys happy accesse to the crowne of England & we were satisfyed the Protestant Religion was secured haveing so gracious a nursing father & nursing Mother upon the throne we Proclaimd there Majes[ties] with all Imagineable joy & gladnesse and soon after [struck: the] [inserted: we Recd. a] Proclamation whereby there Maje[esties] continued & Confirmed Protestant Sherriffes Justices & Collectors [struck: coming to our hands we] [inserted: which Was also Published] [struck: the same] And by virtue thereof the Justices [inserted: acted with the advise of the] Protestant [inserted: military] officers for Papists [inserted and struck: officers] we had none & Praised be to god we have [inserted: but] 2 [inserted: men] in the whole City that are of that Persuasion. [struck: This good unity & harmony being Enjoyed by our neighbor who had taken the illegible such as we could not and illegible stand] [inserted: But] they of N: Yorke that is the vulgar sort [inserted: illegible they had subverted the authority illegible & replaced Capt Nicholson] made one Jacob Leysler [inserted: a mercht.] [struck: Capt of the of the Train band Compie. of the Citty] there Command in Cheiffe who was much dissatisfyed that we would not submitt to him & occasioned us dayly distractions which causd us [live] verry uneasy but thinking [inserted: the time would be that & that] a govern. would speedily arrive we [bene] all Patiently; asson [sic] as his majes[ty's] Lettirs arrived [Diverted] to Capt Nicolson & in his absence to such as for the time being take Care [2] for the Preserving the Peace & maintaining the Laws this Capt Leysler commanded them from the messenger Mr. Riggs & forthwith titles himself [Leiut] Govr. & Commander in Chieffe of the Province, & sends up new Commissions to the People of Alb[any] & Places adjacent without showing any the least authority or order so to doe which necessitate me to make a Protest against those that he Employed to Disturbe us which is also here Inclosed. [inserted: illegible Leylser illegible] [struck: These] Commissions & yr notions [inserted: by] which he [send] up in People Especially at a Place calld S[c]hinnechtady 20 miles from Alb[any], that they should have Luck & such Priviledges; causd the People Contemn the authority Confirmed by there Maje[sty's] Proclamation, & would not hear [his] or obey any officer whatever would keep no watch nor [worde] notwithstanding [inserted: it is] the utmost frontier [sic] of the whole Country till at last [struck: the] 250 french & Indians came on the 9 feb last and Cut them [struck: all] off which if there had been but 10 or 12 men in the Small fort they [struck: had] might have saved the Place so that the french Plunderd all killing 60 & [take] 27 Prisoners. Then [inserted: People] could see there [sorrow] & what the fears of his Divisions brings the seditious letter & [illegible] skins sent by sd. Leysler being formd in the press seald with Blood [inserted: illegible] we doubt not but his Maje[sty] has already sent a Govr. to [Boston] but if it should happen that by the Emergency of affares at Large it could Not hitherto be Dispatched we pray that [you] your [inserted: Lordship] would aquaint his Maje[sty] how [Requisite] it is to have A govr. & sufficient supply [illegible] here Else the French will Run the Countrey. They have now to the Eastward of Boston abut 60 miles off killd & taken twenty nine People & burnt a Towne so that they are always to quik for us. I am of [struck: of mind] [inserted: confident] that N Engl: could never doe a [Peece] of bettir service for the Crowne then the Takeing of Canida but they [struck out: tell me] [inserted: say] Pouder is there greatest want which occasions there sending an Expresse away a Purpose. I shall not Presume upon yr Lord[shi]ps Patience any further to Rend these Imperfect lines but break of & Remain Your Lord[shi]ps most humble & most obedient Servt. R[obert] L[ivingston] To my Lord Notingham there Maje. Principal Secretary of State [Docket] Boston 27 March 1690 Copy Lettir to my Lord Nottingham There Maj[esti]es Principall Sec[reta]ry of State