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and of all the neighbouring Provinces on this Continent, uch ignal Service done againt the Enemies of Mankind, merits the Applaue of all good Men, but more immediately from thoe of this Province, who are appointed his particular Care and Charge. WE therefore, the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York, aembled in Common Council, to expres our grateful Sene and Acknowledgment, to the aid Captain Peter Solgard, for o noble and faithful a Dicharge of his Duty, and as a particular Mark of the great Eteem and jut Regard we bear to his kind Acceptance of the Freedom of the Corporation of this City of New-York, and that he will pleae to become a Fellow Citizen with us. Thee are therefore to certify and declare, that the aid Captain Peter Solgard is hereby admitted, received and allowed a Freeman and Citizen of the aid City of New-York, to have, hold, enjoy and partake of all and ingular Advantages, Benefits, Liberties, Privileges, Franchies, Freedoms and Immunities whatoever, granted or belonging to the ame City: In Tetimony thereof, the aid Mayor hath hereunto ubcribed his Name, and caued the Seal of the aid City to be affix’d the th Day of July, in the ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. ''Anno. Dom.''.

William Sharpas, Clerk.

R. Walter Mayor.

This narrow Ecape of Low and his Companions, one would have thought might have brought them to a little Conideration of their black and horrid Crimes, and to look upon this Interval as an Opportunity put into their Hands by Providence, to reconcile themelves to God, by a hearty and incere Repentance. But alas they were dead to all Goodnes, and had not o much as one Spark of Virtue to tir them up to be thankful for uch an