Resolved yt ye River Indians liveing at Beere Island and Catskill be Perswaded to goe all & live & Plant at Catskill who will be Ready on all occasions to be employed as * skouts or oywise which will much Conduce for ye Security of our neighbours of ye County of ulster by thene Continuall hunting and Rangeing y« woods

And Capt garrit Teunise doth Promise upon all occasions to send up such number of s'J Indians as shall be Requisite to be Employd as afores<i '

Symon van Ness and Andries Barents who went out yc first w* ye maquase Returning told j they had Pursued ye Enemy to

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y* great Lake &, would have overtaken them had they not been Spyed by some of y« Enemy Indians that went out to looke loi 2 negroe boys y^ were Runn away from them, & yt ye Indians & Christians were all Tyred when they came to y« Croune Point neer y^ Lake ; some went farther till they came to where ye Ise Was smooth where the french had with horses that they carried from Shinnectady & skeets & Yse spurrs, made all the way they could over y® Lake in So much that our People could gain nothing upon them ; whereas at first they went 2 of there days journeys in one; neverthelesse Lawrence y« maquase & about 140 Mohoggs & River Indians are gone in Pursute of them, & will follow them quite to Canida.