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 ;
are gone in Pursuite of them, & will follow them quite to Canida.
INVASION OF NEW-YORK AND BURNING OF SCHENECTADY.
JACOB LEISLER TO MARYLAND. [
From Vol. in See's Office, endorsed, "Duke of York's Charter, Laws, Papers &c. in Leisler's time.
1." ]
March 4, 1689 [O. S.] In fort William.
you of the sad and deplorable massacre which happened at and their Indians the 3 9 th of ffebruary last betwixt Saturnday french skenectady near Albany by the & Sunday at eleaven of the clock in the night 200 men fell upon them & most barbarously murdered sixty two men women & children & burnt the place left but 5 or 6 houses unburned carried away captive 27 the rest escaped many of which being about 25 persons much damnified by the french women with chyld ript up, children alive thrown into the flames, some their heads dashed ag* the doors & windows all occasioned by their neglect of their not watching, deryving to obey under the command of the Commission of Sir Edmond, the s d commander being onley spared withall which