or what fort was at Albany, 'twas told him a Captain and 60 English soldyers with 9 peece of ordinance in a small fort of foure Bastions, and that the Cap* thereof Cap* Baker had sent for 20 men

from annother garrison of the Kings at the Sopes, Avho probably might be arrived at Albany the same bower, thus finding his

men tyr'd, the Mohaukes resolute, and something doubtfull, without tryall

of the good will of the English Garrison, because y c reports were strong that the French King and States of Holland were united against

His Matic of England, Monsieur Coursell found it reasonable

to returne home nothing eifected, the 2 prisoners taken by the Mohaukes in the retreate tell

them yt

tins summer another attempt will be made upon their country with a greater force and supplyes of men, the truth or success of which I shall not now discourse upon, having given y e trew relation of what past from y e 29 th December to the 12 th of February.

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From Paris Doc. I. ]

On the seventh of the month of July of the year 1666, the Iroquois of the Oneida Nation, having learned from the

Mohawks, their neighbors and allies and by the Dutch of Fort Orange that the

troops of Louis the fourteenth by the grace of God Most Christian King of France and Navarre, had in the month of February of the said year carried his Majesty's arms-, over the

snow and ice near