Should this plan be agreeable to you, my Lord, please send masons and plenty of instruments to break up the ground and convey stone.

You will be surprised, my Lord, to learn that Sieur de Chailly, of whom I had the honour to write you this fall, not being able to have his cmge from me to retire to France with all his property which

denonville's expedition to the genesee country and Niagara.

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lie sent off last year before

my arrival, has fled and deserted the Country, to pass over to Orange

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is, that he will have informed Governor Dongan of every thing he

knows of our expeditions to the Bale du Nord (Hudson's Bay) and has learned of the interests of the country and our designs.

beg of you, my Lord, to permit of the confiscation of whatever

property may be found belonging to him for the benefit of the two hospitals of the Colony.

FROM GOV. DONGAN TO M. DE DENONVILLE. [London Doc. V.

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Par. Doc. III.]

Albany, May 22. 1686.

Sir

-- have sent

for the

five Nations of Indians y

belongs to this Governm*. to meet me at this

place, to give them in charge that they should not goe to your side of the Great Lakes nor disturbe

your Indians and Traders, butt since my coming here I am informed that our Indians are apprehensive of warr by your putting stores into Cataract [Cataraqui] and ordering some forces to meet there. I know you are a