The Reason of not sending till now was Extream Loa'chness not to write of o^ Complem* of men being forwarded to Albany & 'tis so farr from it at last that wee feare y^ great danger Dearefild y^ fronteer town of Connecticot is in, will detaine Cap" Colton with his sixty & odd men, in those Partes there being as much Likely hood of y® french falling on that place as on Albany, butt we hope if it Please God to Bless our prsent Expedicon by Sea against Canada we shall find them worke att home. Between two & three thousand men will be needfull in y® designe which with many hundred wee are flfaine to Keep out in defence of y® Easterne Partes Doth to of great troubles hinder our sending to Hudsons river by Land and that Could not furnish Cap" Mason with any who writte to us from nantaskett Intimateing he Could make no stay here. Wee shall not be ready this two or three wcekes five Shipps of Warr being to be fitted besiiles victuallers ffire Shipps & Tenders butt Persons Seerae to be so generally Spirited that supos.^ all Imaginable application will be made to forward y^ undertaking. C611''*='

LIEUT. GOV. LEISLER. £61

Kendall is arrived Govern'^ att Barbadoes from whence a Considerable ffleet is gone downe to attack S* Christophers: We are glad to hear that y® Mary landers are in their way towards you & Connecticot Souldiers w^h you, it will be of very great Concerm^ that you so farr gratifie them in their field officers as not to frustrate yr designe God gives Direcion & success in All: Sir