Countrey to Albany, & went himselfe to sustain the Indians against the French, towards the charges of w ch Expedition a Countrey Rate and other taxes were laid by the Gov and Councill in New York r

amounting to £3813 .6.4 whereof Peter (Livingston) alledges £1129.3 6 to remain yet unpaid in Statement of Mr. Livingston's Case, fyc. Sept. 1695. .

the severall Countyes.

CONDITION IN WHICH FORT NIAGARA WAS LEFT IN 1688. [

Paris Doc. IV. ]

On the fifteenth day of September of the Year One thousand, Six hundred and Eighty and^Eight, in the forenoon, Sieur Desbergeres Captain of

one of the companies of the Detachment of the

Marine, Commandant of Fort Niagara having assembled all the officers, the Rev

:

Fath r Millet of

the Society of Jesus Missionary, and others, to communicate to them the orders he received from the

Marquis de Denonville Governor and Lieutenant General for the King in the whole extent of New

France and Country of Canada, dated the 6 th of July of the present year, wherein he is ordered to demolish the fortification of the said Fort, with the exception of the cabins and quarters, which will

be found standing (en nature) ;

We, Chevalier de La Motthe, Lieutenant of a detached company of

the Marine, and Major of said Fort, have made a Proces Verbal, by order of said Commandant, containing a Memorandum of the condition in which we leave said quarters which will remain entire, to maintain the possession His district.