Document: Appointment of magistrates for Flushing and adjoining English towns on Long Island

At a Meeting of the Commanders and Honorable Council of War, holden on the 31st August, 1673.

From the exhibits of the inhabitants of the undernamed towns on Long Island, the following were this day elected Magistates of the said towns:

For the towns of Flushing, Heemstede, Rustdorp, Middelborg & Oisterbay;

who have taken the oath before the Council of War, the 4th September, 1673.

Certificates in due form of all the preceding elections are transmitted.

This day the Proclamation of the seizure of the goods belonging to the subjects of England and France, hereinbefore enregistered under date 18th of August, is transmitted to the courts of Willemstadt[1] and Esopus to be there published and posted up.

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