Colonel Dongan, Governor of New York, has pushed this usurpation to the point of sending Englishmen to take possession, in the King of England's name, of the post of Mislimakinac which is a Strait communicating between lake Huron and lake des Illinois, and has even declared that all those lakes including the river St. Lawrence which serves as an outlet to

them and on which our

Colony is settled, belong to the English.

The Reverend Father Lamberville, a French Jesuit who has been 18 years a Missionary among company with one of his brothers also a Jesuit, wrote on the first of November to

the Iroquois in

Chevalier de Callieres, Governor of Montreal, who informed the Governor General that Colonel

Dongan has assembled the Five Iroquois Nations at Manatte where he resides, and declared to them as follows

That he forbids them to go to Cataracouy or Fort Frontenac and to have any more intercourse

with the French. 2.

That he orders them to restore the prisoners they took from the Hurons and Outawacs, in order

to attract

them to himself.

That he sends thirty English to take possession of Missilimakinak and the lakes, rivers and adjoining lands and orders the Iroquois to escort them and to afford them physical assistance. 3.

4.

That he has sent to recall the Iroquois Christians belonging to the Mohawk tribe, who have

settled a long time ago at Saut St. Louis, adjoining the Island of Montreal,

where they have been

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.