England, and there procure if possible the assistance of 50 men with Provisions, and if no people can be spared, to request money to aid in assisting the King and Queens cause in this County and that all means be used to persuade them to equip ships to invade Canada, and to the End that the said journey may be most speedily prosecuted, he will please notify said agent from the Esopus to be next Monday at Catskill with Capt Ger* Teunise where our Agent shall be to proceed together by Tachkanick to Harford, conveying the horses over from Cattskill.

2. You are to use all means to persuade the gentlemen of the Sopus .to send 50 men to our assistance with provision, and if 50 cannot be obtained, then 30.

3. You will acquaint the gentlemen in the Sopus with all the circumstances here and how necessary it is that we have 50t Skepels of Maize for Supplying the Indians, requesting that they be pleased to send hither together a like quantity for their Majesties ace' There shall be no doubt but such shall be thankfully paid for at the first settling.

4 When arrived at N. York you will have to wait on the Governor if he be arrived, otherwise on the authority there, and inform them pertinently of all the circumstances that have occurred especially here since our last letters of the 15*^ inst that the Indians and Christians who pursued the French, could not bring them back.