of August a party of to be of Bekancourt, a place between Quebeck and Montreal, made an incursion into this province and burnt the houses and barns full of at Hoosic, a place lying about grain eighteen or twenty miles east from that part of Hudson's river which is ten miles above Albany. They carried off with them the few remaining Indians at Schaticook, being between fifty and sixty in number, men, women and children, They had a little while before, when I was in Albany, assured me of their said

fidelity.

Report of Gov. DeLancy, Colonlal History, V i, 909.

Johnson says that this chief fled to the French for protection against his incensed people, but immediately adds :

"A

powerful party who followed his fortunes, took up arms shortly after, attacked a body of provincials at Lake George, whom he totally defeated, and killed forty-five, Since which he was concerned in the

most important services against us, cut off some of our settlements, and occasioned the deaths of more than four hundred of our people."

Colonial History , vn, 956

OF HUDSON'S RIVER. half ;

"

thence to the Delaware again, and so down to the place the later, Penn's successors were

of beginning.

Sixty years to secure as good a bargain surveyors of this tract, and, in order " as possible, prepared a road for the walk," provided expedi tious means of crossing the intersecting streams, and selected

the swiftest pedestrians in the province, that thereby might be accomplished as great a distance as possible within the time