TO COL: GOOD IN MARYLAND

Anno 1690: 27 June in fort William Honorable Sir -- Yours by M^ pembruge & M^ Blackinston, is before me, my former being come to your honors hands, to which I referre you & to what further M^^ Blackinston may informe your honor craving leave to add that we had compleat 400 men these seaven weeks with provisions & ammunition according to our abilities & finding the threatening dangers of the french to increase

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who incessantly sollicile the Indian nationes whom through Gods providence & our commissioners vigilance were prevented & ■prevailed with to come to Albany the five nationes their kings & Ghieftanes in person on the third day of May were assembled & proposed diverse articles unto them which succeeded with suitable returnes as by the proposalls & answers of the five nationes whereof the coppy: is dehvered to M'^ Blackinston to send to your honor, at the same tyme obtained a meeting of the commissioners of Boston plymouth & Connecticott collonies of new England to consult what ought to be done, by them in soe necessary a work. It was resolved that those of new England : should raise 355 men & maintain them at their own cost & charges, *iKi the province of newyork 400: of Maryland we had your honors promise & the committie result of a 100 men which we have expected long since upon Mary lands cost & charges being the like concerned with us to gaine the five natione^. with whom w^e are all in a firme confederacie, we have sent your honor by M^ pembrock our result wherein Maryland is expressed, & by all the large promises from new England & Maryland expected, the respective numbers which are so much waited for, the Indianes having assured us of 1800 men to joineto our assistance now redy to march in the franch territories to prevent their assaults, having fresh newes of great preparationes those of Canada are making to attack us, of which all we have given notice to his Ma^ie, & when we propose anything to the Indianes we always insert Maryland & give them for that province presents of belts of wampums & others, & if not since some soudiers appeare from Maryland, we shall be disabled to performe what we have promised to them in the behalfe of your province, the integrity of those heathens we have great reason to depend on by severall proofs already given us, vizt: their kilhng diverse of their kindred which -were subjects to the french King &c. taking &, killing severall frenchmen of which they have presented *us wdth three, but what is most remarkable is the understanding by our agents at onondago, messengers were expected thro the severall nationes from the Govwnor of Canada to seduce them from their contracts made with tis which by the instructions & memories of a french knight here now