By His Excellency Coll. Benjamin Fletcher captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York, &c. A proclamation[.] Whereas His Majesties service doth call for my immediate presence at Albany, to compose and settle the Indians of the Five Nations ... I ... adjourn the present Assembly from the twenty ninth day of September instant, to the fifteenth day of October next following. ... Given at Fort William Henry the twelfth day of September ... annoq; Domini 1696.

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By His Excellency Coll. Benjamin Fletcher Captain General and Governour in Chief of His Majesties Province of New-York, &c. A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS His Majesties Service doth call for my immediate Presence at Albany, to Compose and settle the Indians of the Five Nations in a stedfast Friendship with all His Majesties Subjects, and to Condole the Loss which they have lately sustained from the French of Canada and their [...]. I have therefore, with Advice and Consent of His Majesties Council for this Province, thought fit to Adjourn the present Assembly from the Twenty Ninth Day of September Instant, to the Fifteenth Day of October next following. And the General Assembly of this Province is hereby Adjourned accordingly.

Given at Fort William Henry the Twelfth Day of September, in the Eighth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord WILLIAM the Third, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno (que) Domini 1696.

Ben. Fletcher.

God Save the KING

Printed by William Bradford, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, at the Bible in the City of New-York, 1696.

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