and of all the neighbouring Provinces on this Continent, ſuch ſignal Service done againſt the Enemies of Mankind, merits the Applauſe of all good Men, but more immediately from thoſe of this Province, who are appointed his particular Care and Charge. We therefore, the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York, aſſembled in Common Council, to expreſs our grateful Senſe and Acknowledgment, to the ſaid Captain Peter Solgard, for ſo noble and faithful a Diſcharge of his Duty, and as a particular Mark of the great Eſteem and juſt Regard we bear to his kind Acceptance of the Freedom of the Corporation of this City of New-York, and that he will pleaſe to become a Fellow Citizen with us. Theſe are therefore to certify and declare, that the ſaid Captain Peter Solgard is hereby admitted, received and allowed a Freeman and Citizen of the ſaid City of New-York, to have, hold, enjoy and partake of all and ſingular Advantages, Benefits, Liberties, Privileges, Franchiſes, Freedoms and Immunities whatſoever, granted or belonging to the ſame City: In Teſtimony thereof, the ſaid Mayor hath hereunto ſubſcribed his Name, and cauſed the Seal of the ſaid City to be affix’d the 25th Day of July, in the ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Anno. Dom. 1723.
William Sharpas,
Clerk.R. Walter Mayor.
This narrow Eſcape of Low and his Companions, one would have thought might have brought them to a little Conſideration of their black and horrid Crimes, and to look upon this Interval as an Opportunity put into their Hands by Providence, to reconcile themſelves to God, by a hearty and ſincere Repentance. But alaſs they were dead to all Goodneſs, and had not ſo much as one Spark of Virtue to ſtir them up to be thankful for ſuch aneminent
