and laid waste, burnt and destroyed their provisions and cabins. Whereof and of what precedes, the said Sieur de la Chenays Aubert has required an Acte granted to him by me Paul Dupuy Esq. Done at the said Village Councilor of the King and his Attorney at the Provost's Court of Quebec ;

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of Totiakton, the largest of the Seneca Villages in presence of the Rev d Father Vaillant, Jesuit, and of the Officers of the Troops and of the Militia Witnesses with me, the said King's Attorney undersigned, the day and year above mentioned, and have signed the Minute, Charles Aubert de la Chenays, J. Rene de Brisay Monsieur de Denonville, Chevalier de Calliere, Fleutelot de Romprey, de

Desmeloizes,de Ramezay; Francois Vaillant of the Society of Jesus, de Grandville, de Longueil, Saint

Paul and Dupuy.

TAKING POSSESSION OF NIAGARA BY MONSIEUR DE DENONVILLE. [ Paris

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Jacques Rene de Rrissay Chevalier Seigneur Marquis de Denonville and other places, Governor and Lieutenant General for the King in the whole extent of Canada and Country of New France. This day, the last of July of the year One Thousand Six hundred and Eighty seven, We declare whom it may concern, in presence of Hector, Chevalier de Callieres, Governor of Montreal in

to all

the said Country

and Commandant of the Camp under our orders, and of Philippe Derigaud, Chevalier de Vaudreuil, Commanding the King's troops, being encamped with all the army at the post of

Niagara, returning from our expedition against the Seneca villages, that being come to the camp of