DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA. to his Ex y y e Govern

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and to encourage y e Indyans to look out Carefully letting them Know the Govern will be up early there y c next Spring

Ordred that a Proclamacdn be Drawn up Prohibiting y e Bringing any Indyan Corne or Pease Out of y c Countys of Albany and Vlster until further Ordrs Ordred that Peiter Schuyler take examinacons of y e antientest traders In Albany how many yeares

Agon they or any others first traded with y° Indyans y had the Straws or Pipes thro' their noses and l

the flfarther Indyans.

GOV.

DONGAN TO M. DE DENONVILLE. [

Par. Doc. III.

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Lond. Doo. V. ] 8th Sept. 1687.

--Yours of the 21 of August st

Sir

last I have received and

am sorry that Mons r de Nonville has so

soon forgot the orders he had received from his master to live well with the King »f England's subbut I find the air of Canada has strange effects on all the Governour's boddys, for I no sooner jects,

came into this province than Mons r de la Barr desired my assistance to warr against the Sinnekes, upon which I went to Albany and sent for the fiue nacons to come to me, and when they came was very angry with them for offering to doe any thing to the French that might disturb their hunting, or otherwise, on which they answered me that they had not don anything to the French, but what Mons de la Barr ordered them, which was that if they mett with any French hunting without his' passe to take what they had from them, notwithstanding if any of their people which were abroad had don any injury they knew not of, they assured me they would give satisfaction.