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

To our great griefe I must acquaint

belongs to him a safeguard being sett in his house & he himselfe to release the prisoners he desired last Nov'ber a certaine number of rebellious people at Albany calling themselves the convention &

by the arbitrary Comission of Sir Edmond & encouraged & supported by some of the wicked creatures of Sir Edmond, desired from me assistance of men gunes ammunition & money being lbs match 950 lbs pouder, boulits etc wch arryafraied of the french to whom we have sent 52 men 50 ving there ag their expectatione would not receive them, & were left there by the Inhabitants desire, I have sent up this Winter & the s d rebells with their fort keept the Inhabitants under a faire. ruling