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vices; and that the Seal of the aid Freedom be encloed in a Gold Box; that Mr. Recorder and Mr. Bickley do draw the Draught of the aid Freedom, ignifying therein, the grateful Sene of this Corporation, for o ignal a Service to the Publick, and Benefit and Advantage of Mankind. That Alderman Kip, and Alderman Cruger, do prepare the aid Box; that the Arms of the Corporation be engraved on one Side thereof, and a Repreentation of the Engagement on the other, with this Motto, (viz.) [Queitos Humani Generos Hotes Debellare uperbum, 10 Junii, 1723.] That the Town-Clerk caue the ame Freedom to be handomly engroed on Parchment, and that the whole Corporation do wait upon him, to preent the ame.

By Order of the Common-Council. William Sharpas, Clerk.

The Preamble of Captain Peter Solgard’s Copy of his Freedom.

Robert Walter, Eq; Mayor, and the Aldermen of the City of New-York.

City of New-York, .

O all whom thee Perents hall come, end Greeting. WHEREAS, Captain Peter Solgard, Commander of his Majety’s Ship the Greyhound, (the preent Station Ship of this Province,) in his Cruize, having Intelligence of two Pyrate Sloops of coniderable Force in Conorthip, under the Command of one Low, a notorious Pyrate, that had for upward of two Years, committed many Depredations, Murders and Barbarities, upon many of his Majety’s Subjects and Allies, lately come upon this Coat, hath, with great Diligence, and utmot Application, purued, overtaken, and after a tubborn Reitance, vanquihed and overcome both of them, taking one, and driving the other from our Coat; which Action, as it is glorious in it elf, o it is glorious in the publick Benefits and Advantages that flow from it, (to wit) The Safety and Freedom of our own Trade and Com-

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