On my return from the campaign which I just made against the Senecas, I received the letter that you took the trouble to write me, Sir, on the 11 th (20 th ) June of this year. You send me copy of the Treaty of Neutrality entered into between our masters of which I also transmitted you a copy as I had rec J it from the King and it was published in this country.

Nothing more is required therein,

have it fully and literally executed as well on your part as on mine. To do that you must discontinue protecting the enemies of the Colony and cease to receive them among you, and to Sir, than to

furnish them with munitions as you have done. at the time of

You must, also, observe the promise you gave me

my arrival, that you would leave the decision of the limits to our masters. You must,

likewise, not undertake any expedition against us in any of our establishments, the greatest portions

of which were before Orange (Albany) was what it is, or any of Manate were acquainted with the Iroquois and the Ouatouas.

When you arrived at your present government, did you not find, Sir, in the whole of the five Iroquois villages, all our Missionaries sent by the King almost the entire of whom the heretic merchants have caused to be expelled even in your time, which is not honorable to your government. It is only three years since the greater