After they were gott into y e Toune without being discovered (no watch or guard being kept, notwithstanding several gent n of Albany no longer than three days before were

up there to Perswade y m to

The french and y Indians besett each house and after they had murthered y e People they burnt all y Cattle &ca Except 5 @ 6 which were saved by Cap Sander to whom they were kinde as they had particular orders so to be by reason of y e many kindnesse shewne by his e

it)

e houses and barns

:

wife to y e french Prisoners.

Albany y' 22 day of february 16||.

Symon Van Ness and Andries Barents who went out y e first w th y e Maquaese returning told they had Pursued y* Enemy to ye great Lake & would have overtaken them had they not been spyed

by some of y e Enemy Indians them, & y* y

e

that went out to looke for 2 Negroe boys, y l w ere Runn away from Indians & Christians were all Tyred when they came to y e Croune Point neer e Lake y r

some went further till they came to where y e Ise was Smoth where the french had with horses that they carried from Skinnechtady & Skeets and Yse Spurs, made all the way they could over ye Lake ;

in so much that our People could gain nothing

upon them whereas at first they went 2 of there days journeys in one; neverthelesse Laurence y e Maquase and about 140 Mohoggs & River Indians ;