The young Indian that was in the engagement relates that after the engagement was over, when the Sinnekes were gott upon a Hill, they see a party of Fresh French come up, the French called to them and bid them stand and fight, but the Sinnekes reply ed, come out four hundred to our four hundred and wee have butt a hundred men and three hundred boyes, and wee will fight you hand to fist, The said Boy being asked, whether he see any of the French with Gorges about their necks, it was to hott, they were to numerous, There was amongst the 450 Sinnekes five women, who engaged as well as the men, and were sight of the Sennekes, the French not seeing

likewise ; the Sennekes seeing this advance

;

resolved not to leave their husbands but live and dye with them

A true copy examined p me Rob' Livingston Cl

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

EXAMINATION OF INDIAN PRISONERS. [

Lond. Doc. V. ] 31 August, 1687.

A few days after the French came and gave him all the Indians in the Christians Castle, each thirty bullets and a double handfull of powder, and

neare

Mont Royall

:

bad them appeare

att a

French Gents house,

the Christian Indians being about one hundred and twenty or thirty strong, in

meane time the French and other Nations of Indians all appeared at Mont Royall, and the second day after that the Gov r himselfe the number of the French being two thousand and of all the Indians one thousand. The army went all by water in about two hundred boates in each Boate some seaven and some ten menn, the rest went in Canoes, they were sometimes forced to draw the ;