w rh most very wanting, but presbiterians & Independent^ desierous to have and maintaine them

if to be had,

There are ab 1 20 Churches or Meeting places of w- h aboue halfe vacant their allowance

like to be from 40 lb to 70 lb a yeare and a house and garden.

Noe Beggars but all poore cared fifor.

If good Ministers could be had to goe theither might doe well & and gaine much upon those people.

Endorsed

"Answers of inquiries of New-York Rec d from S r Edm. Andros on the 16 th of Ap. 1678."

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Note. Chalmers gives in his annals what purport to be copies of these Reports, but they will be found to be rather abstracts when compared with the official MSS. which are now published in full, it is believed for the first time.

V.

PAPERS RELATING TO

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JEFFERSON COUNTY.

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EXTRACT OF THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY THE KING TO M. DE LA BARRE. [Paris Doc. Vol. II.] Versailles, 10th

May, 1682.

He is equally informed that the Savages nearest adjoining to the French Settlements are the Algonquins and the Iroquois, that the latter had repeatedly troubled the peace and tranquillity of the Colonies of New France until His Majesty having waged a severe war against them, they were finally constrained to submit and to live in peace and quietness without making any incursions on the lands

But as these restless and warlike tribes cannot be kept down except by terror, and as His Majesty has even been informed by the last despatches, that the Onnontagues and Senecas Iroquois tribes have killed a Recollet and committed many other violences and that it is inhabited by the French.