Document: Letter from N. Bayard to lieut. Drayer

Lieutenant Andries Drayer,Sir,The Governor received yesterday by express a letter, but without any signature, date or place where written, and as his Honor hath not yet received the Commissioners' letter whereof you make mention, he hath therefore instructed me to notify you, that he postpones his answer until that time, and in the meanwhile is regulating himself according to the annexed letter of the 5th inst. Further, this serves for advice that, by express this day, information was received from New England, that peace had been concluded between Holland and England on the 19th of February last and proclaimed on the 28th following, which is believed at present, but the confirmation by the next. No more at present than greeting and commendation to God from