New York Addresses to Governor Lord Cornbury, 1702

Address of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York to Governor Lord Cornbury. We do heartily congratulate your Lordship's safe arrival, and we cannot entertain too grateful a sense of H.M. Royal favour to us in making so excellent and prudent a choice in sending your Lordship (a person of so great and noble birth, skillfull in the art of warr, and acquainted with the English Laws and Government) to heal our divisions and secure us from the danger of the enemy abroad etc.

Thomas Noell, Mayor
Abraham Gouvenour, Recorder
J. D'Peyster
Brandt Schuyler
Jacob Boelem
Martin Cloch
Philip French
Robert Lurting
J. Johnson
Abraham Mezier
Abraham Brassier
Robert White

Justices of the Peace and Military Officers of Suffolk County.

Freeholders and Inhabitants of the City and County of Albany.

Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church.

Freeholders and Inhabitants of Kings County, Nassau Island.

Principal Freeholders and Inhabitants of Queen's County.

Principal Freeholders and Inhabitants of Richmond County.

Headlam, Cecil, ed., Calender of State Papers, Colonial Series (Volume 20), America and West Indies, Jan.-Dec. 1, 1702, Preserved in the Public Record Office (Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1964) First Published London: HMSO, 1912. pp. 615-624.