That therefore yo r Excell: do appoint the bretheren to meet you thereunto at Albany this day 4. two months, but if it should so happen that by reason of the Onnondages being fledd the brethren could not then meet in a body at that time the Onondages and Senekes and Cayouges will consult and pitch upon the time, and to give yo r Excellency timely notice thereof to the end the brethren of the Maquaes and Oneydes may be acquainted therewith accordingly, Dated the 8 th of August in Albany :

1696.

Nich Bayard

Evert Bancker Dirck Wessels

G. Dellius

P Schuyler. r

Copy of a Commission left by his Excell.

Benjamin Fletcher, Capt. Gen & Govern in Chiefe of his Ma1 ^ 3 Province of New-Yorke, &c. to Peter Schuyler Esq. one of his Ma^ 6 * Council for the s d Province, Mr. Godfrey Dellius Minister at

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Albany and places adjacent, Maj r Dirck Wessels and the May* of the city for the time being. I doe by virtue of the power and authority to me given by his Ma'y s Letters Patents under the Greate Seale of England, hereby impower you or any two of you to treat conferr and consult with the Five Indian Nations of the Maquaes Oneydes Onondages and Sinnekes who have hitherto been faithful to my Master his Majesty of Great Brittain, France & Ireland & c and to hold a correspondence with them pursuant to such instruccons as you shall from time to time receive from me, so as by y r endeavours they may be confirmed in their fidelity and allegiance. And from time to time you are hereby required to give a constant and minute account of all yo r proceedings to me & his Ma"'" Council for the province of New-Yorke, and I doe hereby supersede vacate make null any former warr 1 or commission granted in this behalfe.