p: John Allyn Secretary

[The P. S. to the above is almost wholly destroyed.]

*SECY. ALLYN TO LEISLER.

Hartford May 28th 1690. HoNo^i-E gn -- Since our last (although but yesterday) we haue intelligence from Albany of very great sickness among the people and soldery, that near half our men are sick of fluxes, many being

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the bloody flux & feauors, and one of the Small Pox, the fluxes thought to be occasioned by bad Pork, that the Maquaes are down of the Small Pox, 5 of them haue dyed, after all which we could do no less then comunicate to the Hon'»ie Gov. & Councell of the Massachusets, and to aduise whether wee were not better to stay a little the issue of those distempers if God please to grant it then to rush our men on heapes and render them useless or worss; wee slake not our preparations on this account, but as yo"^ Hon"" cannot but haue more speedy intelligence then wee of those things, so we desire your informations and aduice about it, and what men may be improued with such of the Indians as may be wil. to infest the French by partyes, and what resolutions are taken with the Indians to haue their strength joyned with ours, that one thing wait not for another, as God may by giuing health inable unto; wee request that al meanes be used to keep the Indians in good terms with us, and that such persons as can best influence them be incoraged so to do -- Wee haue not to ad, saue that wee are yo"" Honr^ freinds & Servants the