Treaty of Utrecht, which mentions that the subjects of the two Crowns shall not intrench upon one anothers Land, 'till the Decision of the Limits by the Judges delegated to that End, has sent me with orders to summon you to draw out at furthest within a fortnight the Garrison of this place with arms, munitions and other effects belonging to the people of Albany or other places, to cast down the block
house and all pieces of work you raised up contrary to all law, leaving you if you think fit to establish yourselves at Lake Thechiroguen, or the Oneida River where
you formerly traded and to
leave the mouth of this river free, as it has always been, to the French, failing which his Loidship the Marquis of Beauharnois will take measures against you and against your unjust usurpation as he will think fit. (Signed) Begon. Montreal the 14th of July 1727.
COPY OF THE PROCES VERBAL OF THE SERVICE OF SAID SUMMONS. [Paris Doc. VII.]
This day the first of August 1727, we the undersigned, Knight of the Military Order of St. Louis,
Major of the Town, Castle and Government of Quebec, having in execution of the orders to us given by the Marquis of Beauharnois Governor and Lieutenant General for the King in all New France, arrived before the Fort built by the English on the borders of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the
River Choueguen, sent to advise Mr. Bancker Commanding the Ganison of our arrival and had him informed, at the same time, that we came on the part of the Governor General Commanding in Chief