386 0/ Capt. Edward Low. 



tnercCj and of all the neighhduring Provinces bn this t!on* 

 tinent^ fuch fignal Service done againfi the Enemies df 

 Mankind^ merits the jippUufe of all good, Men^ hut mor^ 

 immediately from thofe of this Province^ rvho are appointed 

 his particular Care and Charge. WE therefore^ the May or ^ 

 Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York, 

 afjembled in Common Council^ to exprefs our grateful Senfs 

 and Acknowledgment^ to the fat d Caffain P^Jter Solgard, 

 for fo noble and faithful a 'Difcharge. of his Duty^ and 'os 

 particular Mark of the great Efieem md :ju(l; Regard 

 we bear to his kind Accept dnce of the Freedom of the 



[Corporation of this City of, New-York^ and that he 

 will pleafe to become a Fellow Citiz^en with us* .Thefe are 

 therefore to certify and declare^ that the faid Captain 

 Peter Solgard is hereby admitted^ received and allowed 

 a Fjeeman and Citiz.en of the faid City of New-York, to 

 have^ hold^ enjoy and partake of all and fingular Advatk- 

 tagesy Benefit Sy Liberties ^ Privileges y Franchifesy Free* 

 doms and Immunities whatfoever^ granted or belonging to 



jhe fame City : In Teftimony thereof^ the faid Mayor 

 hath hereunto fubfcribed his Name ^ and caufed the Seal 

 of the faid City to be affixed the 2^th Day of July, in the 

 fiinth Tear of the Keign of our Sovereign Lord George, 

 by the Grace of Gody X^??^ Great Britain, France 

 and Irehndy Defender of the Faithy Scc Awio, Doiru 



William Sharpas, R. Walter Mayor. 



Clerk. 



This narrow Efcape ot Low ^nd his Companions, 

 one would have thought might have brought them 

 to a little Confide ration of their black and horrid 

 Crimes, and to look upon this Interval as an Op- 

 ' portunity put into their Hands by Providence, 

 to reconcile themfelves to God, by a hearty and 

 ilncere Repentance. But alafs they \Vere dead to 

 ^11 Goodnefs, and had not lo mufch as one Spark of 

 Virtue tofiir them up to be thankful for liich an 



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