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Thus had Leysler perperted yt poor people by his seditious letters now founde all bloody upon Skinnechtady streets, with the notions of a free trade, boalting &c. and thus they are destroyed; they would not watch, and where Capt. Sander commanded, there they threatened to burn him upon ye fire, if he came upon the garde. We were much alarmd at Albany; we sent ye Maquase yt were at hand out, and to ye Maquase Castles; but ye Messenger being so timorous did not proceed; so yt it was 3 days before we could get ye Maquase downe to pursue them, who being joyned with our men, follow'd them to the Great Lake, where ye Yse being good and ye French haveing robb'd sundrey horses, put ther plunder upon sleds and so over ye Lake; however ye Indians pursued and gott 10, and afterwards 5, and killed 3. Who being examined relate, yt ye French design to attacke Albany early in ye Spring, haveing 120 batoes 100 birch canoes and 12 light morter peeces and severall other engines ready, and are to come with 1500 men. Poor Sharpe is lame being wounded with a great gunn yt split when ye alarm came [to Albany] of Skinnechtady.

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JACOB LEISLER TO THE GOVERNOUR OF BARBADOES.

[From Vol. endorsed, Letters in Leislers time &c.]

Ao 1690 17 May in fort William.

Honorable Sir-The French of Cannada with their Indianes committed six bloody masacres in this province three, & in New England three, they have destroyed Skanectady a vilage 20 milles from Albany, murdered sixty three men women and children, carried captive 27: & have committed the greatest tyranny ima ginable, rypt up women with chyld throwed children alive into the flame, dasht others agt door post till their brains stuck to it, another murder of eleaven people, and one or two committed since last fall, we send fifty men up to guard that place, but a certaine number of people there maintaining the cômissions from Sir Edmond Andross & Coll. Dongan deryving from the authority of the late King James would not accept them there, but keept the

fort by virtue of the sd Commission & would not suffer any of them to goe & guard sd Village being the frontier but send of their people there, by which meanes from treachery cowardice and carelesnes that too unfortunate and to be lamented accident hes hapened there, the river being frozen that noe forces could be sent up the winter, the well meaned people, lodged our souldiers who kept guard in the City whereof the french & Indian (in number of 200 men) had advise the Indianes would not goe there & so altered the designe, and that place was by that meanes spared our Indians pursued them kild & took 25 frenchmen who gave us an account of severall troops out in a designe in the Spring with 2500 french besides their Indianes.

MR. VAN CORTLANDT TO SR ED. ANDROSS.

[Lond. Doc. VII.]

May it please your Excellency,

19 May, 1690.

The French and Indians have againe, since your Excelley's departure, destroyed some people to the Eastward of Boston, have also burned Scheneghtade killed 60 people and tooke 28 young men and boys prisoners: About 150 Indians and 50 young men off Albany followed the French overtooke them upon the lake killed some and tooke 15 Frenchmen, which the Indians have killed in their castles; the french Indians have killed eight or ten people att Conestagione, which has made the whole country in an alarm, and the people leave their plantations. Most of the Albany Wood men are att New-Yorke. Arent Schuyler went with eight Indians to Chambly, killed 2 and tooke 1 Frenchman prisoner.

MR. LIVINGSTON TO [CAPT. NICHOLSON.]

[Lond. Doc. VII.]

7th June. 160.

Honble Sir,-We of Albany stood out the longest till were. deserted by all New-England, and while I was sent by the Con

vention of Albany to procure assistance from the neighbouring colonies, Leisler sends up one Jacob Milborne, formerly a servant to a man in Hartford, but now a fitt tool for his turn with 160 men, who gott the fort surrendered to him, after I had maintained the garrison, and all publick charge to the 12th of March, turn'd out all the Souldiers but 12 or 13, which they tooke in again, and so kept there for some weeks- This Jacob Millborne, John de Bruine and Johannes Provoost, under the dominion of New-York commissa spending their time with drinking and quaffing, while the French Indians comes and cutts off the people at Canastagione. and above Synectady, and never one of them catcht. We have all Leisler's seditious letters secured which was the occasion of the destruction of Synechtady, miraculously found in the streets, all embrued wth blood the morning after massacre was committed, so that we want nothing but a Govern' to call him to account.

X.

CIVIL LIST

OF THE

Province of New-York, 1693.

A LIST OF ALL THE OFFICERS

EMPLOYED IN CIVILL OFFICES IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORKE IN

AMERICA THE 20th OF APRILL 1693, AND OF THEIR SALLARIES.

[Lond. Doc. IX.]

Patent Officers.

His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher Esqr Capt Genll and Governour in Chiefe of the Province of New

Sallarys

York and Territories depending thereon in Ame->780 00 00 rica and Vice-Admirall of the same £600 sterling

att 30 pr cent advance is.

Matthew Clarkson Esq' Secry allowed him for Paper

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Chidley Brook Esq' Coll and Receiver Gen1l p260.00. 00 ann. £200 £30 Sterl pr cent advance

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Justices of the Supream Court of Judicature haveing the power of Kings Bench, Comon Pleas and Exchequer. William Smith Esq Chiefe Justice per

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Robt Livingston Sub Collector att Albany per annum £50 00 00

Wm Shaw, Gauger att Albany pr anñ:

Thos Munsey Surveyor att New-York p' anñ
James Evetts Waiter

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Allowed for their Maties Barge one Coxwain pr ann:

and eight oars att 50 each, £20

30 00 00

Allowed to a printer pr ann

40 00 00

Clerk of the Assembly allowed 12s pr diem dureing yo
Sessions

Sessions

Door Keeper and Messenger 4 pr diem dureing ye

Allowed the Honble N. Blaithwayte 5 pr cent out the

Revenue as Auditor Generall

£1738 00 00

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