You are hereby ordered in his Majt'es name to take hence forthwith under your command 9 men and march with Jannetie or Laurence the Mohawk Indian and his party of savages with some Schagtkooks Indians upward about seven miles beyond the Crownpoint unto the Otter-creek, or some other better place or Rendesvous which you may consider more suitable safer and more advantageous -- where you shall remain and keep good watch day and night, and send out especially good scouts and spies every day till Sundown, and you shall correspond daily with Capt Jacobus de Warm & his soldiers who are sent to the aforesaid Crown point, and mutually communicate to each other all remarkable occurences, and should you perceive or meet any French or Canada Indians, you must endeavor to despoil, plunder and do them all injury as Enemies conformably to the Custom of War : And the aforesaid 9 men are hereby strictly charged to obey their officers in all things.

And the Officers shall in all things»advise with the aforesaid Indian, Jannetie, as to what concerns his Majisty's Interest and this undertaken Expedition, You shall, likewise, remain at the afores<i Otter-Creek, or at the place you may think fit as above, for the time of one month except you really and truly perceive the approach of a pow^erful enemy's force, which you cannot resist, then you must Cito cito send a Messenger hither, and the remainder of Your Company must return immediately here to the City.

But if there be any Volunteers, either Christians or Indians who will proceed from the aforesaid Otterkill to Canada as Spies,