. Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine. ho held office in the year1672 shall again be re-instated for the period of one-half ayear, viz : Capt. Chambers, President,Mr. Hall, Schout,cornelis wynkoop,Joost Adriaensen, ROELOF KlERSTEDE, who have taken the oath of allegiance to his Royal Highness,James, Duke of York. It was also ordered that the Heer Grevenraedt shallrender an account of his administration. It was resolved that on the day after to-morrow the mag-istrates at Horly and Marbel shall be released of the oath totheir High Mightinesses and the Prince of Orange. At a Sess


. Olde Ulster : an historical and genealogical magazine. ho held office in the year1672 shall again be re-instated for the period of one-half ayear, viz : Capt. Chambers, President,Mr. Hall, Schout,cornelis wynkoop,Joost Adriaensen, ROELOF KlERSTEDE, who have taken the oath of allegiance to his Royal Highness,James, Duke of York. It was also ordered that the Heer Grevenraedt shallrender an account of his administration. It was resolved that on the day after to-morrow the mag-istrates at Horly and Marbel shall be released of the oath totheir High Mightinesses and the Prince of Orange. At a Session of the Court held in KingstonAugust 20th, 1681, Whereas it is found that no guardis kept, and this place ought to be guarded, thereforethe court is obliged, for the sake of protecting theplace against fire as well as other dangers, to appoint arattle-watch as they are doing by the present. Whichman shall go around, every hour (die alle uren salomgaan) and call out the time of the night, and thusto look for all fires, and for night walkers, etc. 198. The Journal of Conrad IVeiser BESIDES the Dutch of the years preceding1700, and the Huguenots who also came inthe seventeenth century, the greatest immi-gration in colonial days was that of thePalatines. These were the original settlersof Newburgh, and if not the first in Sauger-ties, they were the earliest who came inappreciable numbers. The colony that cameto Newburgh arrived in 1708 and numberedforty-one souls. The colony that settled in the townof Saugerties at West Camp and in Columbia countyat East Camp (Germantown) were, at one time, morethan two thousand. In future numbers Olde Ulsterwill speak at length of theircoming. For many years the editor of this magazine searchedfor the Journal of Conrad Weiser written by one ofthese Palatines. For more than twenty years he wasunsuccessful until a stray copy was found by him in alarge public library that possessed it without knowingit. He gives it in full in this his


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