r Pembroke I received & I returne yow many thanks for the care I Yours of the 8 th instant by Since your last wee have received the sad & miserable newes packet, for our had have perceive yow understand is laid to your woeful account it is such wee from Skenectedy neere Albany whereof newes as wee feared long since, Alace what could there be expected of a certaine number of rebellious people that remained rulling under that arbitrary Commissions of sir Edmund at Albany within

this province, and encouraged and supported by Connecticoatt by ordering their forces sent thither to

observe the directions of the s d rebells

named a Conventione, being well assured the same is supported more especially by that waylerous John Allan the Secretary of that Collony.

INVASION OF NEW-YORK AND BURNING OF SCHENECTADY.

THE SAME TO THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY, 31 March 1690. [Lond. Doc. VII.]

--The foregoing being sent via Boston p the agents

May it please your Lordship

for New England which we hope are safely arrived ere this date, we take leave to add, that [to] a certain village named Schanectede 24 miles to the northward of Albany on Saturday the 9 th of Febr. last about 11a clock at night, came 200 French and Indians near 100 each and attacqued the same while it snowed thick, r

barbarously destroying the Inhabitants all being dutch ; they murthered 60 persons, and bore away

with them 27 prisoners, wounding some others so that there remain but about one sixth part of them having their cattel, goods and provisions destroyed and arrested from them, the remnant sheltering themselves at Albany, where there is provision made for them from New Yorke.