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should have heard y e newes of y e destroying

Skinnechtady by y e French and Indians before your departure y l your Excel, might y e more hastned

motion at Whitehall for our Settlement. On y e 9 th of Feb y last a Comp y of 250 French and Indians came upon y l place when they were all asleep about 11a Clock at night, and killd and detheir

stroyed 60 men women and children, carryed 27 men and boys prisoners and burnt y e towne except 6 or 7 houses which are saved by Capt. Sander, whom they did not touch, having expresse command to meddle

soners.

w th none of his relations for his wife's sake, who had always been kinde to y e French pri-

The people of that Towne were so bygotted to Leysler that they would not obey any of y°

Magistrates neither would they entertain y e souldiers sent thither by y* Convention of all ; nothing

but men sent from Leysler would do theire turn.

Thus had Leysler perperted y* poor people by his seditious letters now founde all bloody upon Skinnechtady streets, with the notions of a free trade, boalting &c. and thus they are destroyed ; they

would not watch, and where Capt. Sander commanded, there they threatened to burn him upon y e fire, if he came upon the garde. We were much alarm at Albany we sent y e Maquase y 4 were at