Inclosed is the Copy of o"" proposalls to ye Indians & there answer, ye gentle™" Comissionrs at there first 2 or 3 dayes arrivall here urged us to make up ye number of 800 or 1000 men by land & they had 800 by sea already & we here 240, & and that they would make it up 1400 or 1500 men & had made a calculation upon paper W^^ they showed us, wherein they ingaged New York 400 by land & 240 by sea, Conecticut 300, Maryland 100, East Yersey 50, whereupon I advised o' Comissioners at Albany; ; what force we where hke to obtaine. Ye Indians arriving there made them propose ye nomb'' in there proposition exprest, of w^^ they cane not go back said propositions being concluded, where sent down to us in a Vessell w^h run upon a shole, so that I got it but on ye 27^^ Instant, ye 3*^ day after ye Comission^s from y® severall Colonies had mett w^^ us, & we desired to conclude o'^ result. The Gentle 'i of Boston would not engage that there fleet should go in Canada River for Quebeck, only if they had success at Port Royall where they where bound, they believed, being thereby encouraged, they should resolve then and acquaint us thereof by ye first, but we heard nothing since, only M"" Moline advises me that ye 21^^ of this Instant was appointed ye meeting at ye Rendevous at Sprinckfield to depart for Albany; we have newes that the Indians begin to arrive at Albany. I shall give order that none shall go upon ye march but sutch as have had ye Small Pocks, because if any should get it upon ye march we lose 3 men, there can be left no lesser than two men that have had ye Pocks by ye sick, I have been very causious & have listed none but sutch as had had the Pocks, onely some that has been sent to me from the countrey, those that had it not will be fit to guard the fronteers, o"^ Fleet is departed ye 26t'» Instant, commissionated for ye designe; inclosed is ye Copy of there order ingaged by them, they have particular order if possible to slop at Cape Ann & to sent post to Boston to make his Hono^" ye Govern"^ acquaint of there arrant, & if possible, they shall stop at Port Royalt to