The French and Indians have againe, since your Excell c y' s departure, destroyed some people to the Eastward of Boston, have also burned Scheneghtade killed 60 people and

tooke 28 young men and boys prisoners

:

About 1 50 Indians and 50 young men off Albany followed

the French overtooke them upon the lake killed some and tooke 15 Frenchmen, which the Indians

have killed in their castles ; the french Indians have killed eight or ten people att Conestagione, which

INVASION OF NEW- YORK AND BURNING OF SCHENECTADY.

has made the whole country in an alarm, and the people leave their plantations.

Wood men are att New-Yorke.

Most of the Albany Arent Schuyler went with eight Indians to Chambly, killed 2 and

tooke 1 Frenchman prisoner.

MR. LIVINGSTON TO [CAPT. NICHOLSON.] [JLond. Doc. VII. ]

Hon ble Sir,

--We of Albany stood out the longest

7th June. 1690. till

were deserted by all New-England, and while

I was sent by the Convention of Albany to procure assistance from the neighbouring colonies, Leisler sends up one Jacob Milborne, formerly a servant to a man in Hartford, but now a fitt tool for his

turn with 160 men, who gott the fort surrendered to him, after I had maintained the garrison, and all publick charge to the 12 th of March, turn'd out all the

Souldiers but 12 or 13, which they tooke some weeks. This Jacob Millborne, John de Bruine and Johannes Provoost, under the dominion of New-York commiss" spending their time with drinking and quaffing, while the French Indians comes and cutts off the people at Canastagione and above Synectady, and never one of them catcht. We have all Leisler's seditious letters secured which was the occasion of the destruction of Synechtady, miraculously found in the streets, all embrued w th blood the morning after massacre was committed, so that we want nothing but a Govern' to call him to account. in again, and so kept there for