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Honnord Ser Your most obliget & most humble servant

MAJOR MILBORN AND THE REST OF THE GENTLEMEN AT SCHANHECHTADE.

This afternoon Three of our folks arrived here from Canida who escaped from there ; namely, Klyn Isack, the Son of Ryck Classen, and one of Capt Boll's Soldiers. They report having been 24 days on the road, and the Soldier twenty six days from Monrojael.

They say that Monrojael is not very strongly garrisoned, though they fear nothing and think little of us. Nevertheless the Soldier or Englishman would very gladly attack it and is inclined to accompany our people and gives us great ehcouragement, that the opportunity is favorable.

The French abstain from talking before prisoners & say they have heard little or nothing from the Port rojael Expedition or of the Indian fight on the Lake

We further refer to the Enclosed to Arnout Cornelissen. We think it right if your Honors consider that Arnout CorneHssen is gone, that it should be sent after him by an Indian in order to communicate this news to the Indians. Wherewith, after salutation we remain,

Your friends This 9 July Ao 1690. In Albany. J. Bruyn

Johannes Provoost

Laurents or Jannetie the Indian with his party urge us very hard not to omit reminding the Gentlemen again to admonish the Indians at Schanhechtade not to let the French prisoners go out with them to fight, for we have an example now in our own people who have run away from Canada, and that they should be disarmed.