Document: Order for administering the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the towns in Achter Col (New Jersey)

At a Meeting of the Commanders and Honorable Council of War, holden in Fort Willem Hendrik on the 6th September, Anno 1673.

Captain Knyf and Captain Snell are this day commissioned and authorized by the Honorable Council of War, to repair with the clerk Abram Varlet to Elizabets Towne, Woodbridge, Shrousbury, Piscattaway New Worke and Middeltowne, situate at Achter Coll, and to administer the oath of allegiance to all the inhabitants of those towns in the form as hereinbefore recorded, to which end orders and instruction in due form are also given them.

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