2 Yow are to acquaint them how Requisite it is y* some sudden means be used to fitt out vessells to goe to Canida and Invade Quebek which is y® Easier and surer way then by Land, since Quebek is but meanly fortified, & few men there, y® strentchof Canida being Drawn up to mont Royall w^ y® french have fortified.

3 Yow are to make y* addresse to y® s^ Gov^ & Councill of Canetticut for y® assistance of fifty Brisk young men or more fitt for traveling in y® woods to goe out upon occasion w^^ our People and y® Indians to annoy y® Enemy

4 After y" have discoursed of y^ mean Condition of this Place & how Scarce Provisions are like to be the farmers leaveing there habitations, since y® murther Committed at Shinnectady ; where great store of all sorts of Provisions was Destroyed, then y" are to Desyre y^ quantity of one hundred Barrells of Porke or Beefe Equivalent for there Maj«^s use to be Employed as occasion shall Require for there Maj^^ Troops that lye in garrison here for y« Defence of this part of y" Country

5 If y« govi" & Councill of Canetticut doe Decline to send any more men or no Provisions hither then y^ are to Insist y* y* Comp« of Capt Bull stay here till further order from there Maj«8 since it would be of Dangerous Consequence to draw off s** Comp*' at this juncture & Raise jealousies among y® Indians, while they are so Eager for more men to Pursue y® warr against y® french.