The French have the same bad designs there as well as at Ohio; They are verv lond to get Kermybeck River, We have News of their begmnmg a Fort at the head of that river; A priest of theirs has ouiit a House a gi-eat way do\yn that River; Governor Shirley has raised 800 Men and is gone down to drive them away and to Build an English Fort at tlie head or far up the said River Kennybec -- We have News also that the French are building a Fort up Connecticut River Northward of Cowass ; The Governor of New Hampshire has now sent a Company of Men up that River to enquire into that Fact, and if true to drive them imediately off. In another part of the Government of New Hampshire a Number of the S' Francis^ Indians have lately taken a family consisting of a Man ajiil his Wife and three Children and carried them into Captivity from an out Settlement on Merrismack River, and this contrary to their solemn Engagement at a Treaty held with them.
We have also News that a Nmnber of Indians had Murdered Twenty one English Fishermen at Canso and had carried their Scalps to Cape Britton where they were well received and tis said rewarded.
The Board then Adjourned till to Morrow Morning at 9 a Clock.
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 589
At a Meeting in the Court house at Albany on Thursday the 4 July 1754 A. M. Present