Canada are providing fifteen hundred pair of Snowshews, Ordered that y e Mayor and Magistrates of Albany send ord rs to the five Nations to bring Down e y ffrench come uppon them in the Winter and none to stay That they who come be setled some at Cats Kill Levingstons land
their Wives Children and old men least e
in the Castles but y yong men. and along y c River where they can find Conveuiency to be neer us to assist them if they should want and that they send Downe with them all y e Indyan Come that can be spared by y e Young Men
who are to stay in y e Castles. Councill held at ffort James ;
Sonday the Present his Exc the Govern
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of Septemb r
,
1687.
&c.
Letters from Albany giveing account that the people there are in great Consternation thro apprehension that y e ffrench will come down uppon them this Winter
Resolved that Every tenth man of all y e Militia troups & Companys within the Province Except those that were out y e last yeare a whaling be drawn out to go up thither.
M.
DE DENONVILLE TO GOV. DONGAN. [Par. Doo. III. ; Lond. Doo. V.]
Kebec, 2 Octob. 1687.
--On arriving
town I rec* a letter from the King copy of which I send, so that you may see, Sir, how much His Majesty has at heart that we should five on good terms. This has induced me to await your reply to the letters I had the honour to write you by Antoine Lespinard regarding the complaints I made to you of the infraction yourself and your officers at Orange have committed and continue to commit of the Treaty of Peace and Union entered into between the Sir