Hartford March 5th 16^9-90 Gentlem° -- We haue receiued & perused your angry letter, stuffed with unjust collumniateing charges, as if we treated you att New Hauen with contempt & disdayne, as when itt was don with all imaginable canSor & amity & w''' all due obseruance to his Majesties interest in these parts of America, utterly abhorringh the thought of abetting any Rebells & did w^h all integrity of spirrit to our greate cost and charge, send comission'^s last summerr to york and «ouldieTs to countenance King W™^ &, the protestant interest ; and when you was nott [in] a capassity as wee were informed, to send men to Albany to defend his Majisties interest & to secure his good subjects there against the comon Enemy, being ignorant of any diuissions att the entring uppon that designe & much urged and solicited by the people there and the fiue nations, as well as the Comissioners of Boston and Plymouth to afford assistance to them, wee fully informed your Comrs att New Hauen, that wee apprehend itt most conduceable to the peace of the country and the Kings interest, that such men should be continued in place att Albany that may best maintaine a good correspondence with the Moehauks & other fower nations in amity with the English, which should be preferred before all annumossityes in this critticall juncture, and aduised you all to moderation and good compliance. Gentlem" we cannott butt judge it ingrattitude in a verry high degree to heap upp such unjust Charges upon us for all our expence of money & blood in defending the Kings subjects, and what you intend by so ill requiteing your louing neighbours, who for fidellity and duty to our gracious soueraign King Wm our actions will demonstrate to be no ways inferiour to our neighbours round aboute us, as to our motions att Albany, our Comiss" to Cap* Bull, & our late & p''sent aduise to the gentlem" of Albany will vindicate us both before God & our King ; our aduise to them hath been nott to contend, but to submitt to the present power in the prouince of New Yorke^& to unite as one man to oppose the comon enemy