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Teunise, Gerrit to the Council re: orders to mobilize militia in defense of a French invasion

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.02044 Author/Creator: Teunise, Gerrit Place Written: Albany, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: 1697/08/13 Pagination: 2p. 30.8 x 19.8 cm Order a Copy

In his address to the council, Teunise orders the mobilization of militia men to ward off an invasion of the French from Canada. P.2 contains a letter to Coll. Beekman that discusses the scouts' reports of French activity, and of the need to mobilize a form of defense. Docketed on verso.

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