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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849. 299 words

24 blew coats

24 laced hatts 24 p r shoes with buckles

400 weight of lead

barrell

1000 flints

shirts

grose of tobacco pipes, wood and tinn

22 dozen hose

2 grose of knives

30 gunn barrills and locks

6 pound of vermillion

30 brasse kettles

Prime cost in England of the above goods £200 sterling.

A list of presents added by the government of New Yorke.

piece of duffils

100 hatchetts

2 cask of Swan shott

54£ lbs tobacco in roll 2 grose pipes

7 barrills powder 14 large kettles

Wampum £3. 9.

7 pieces of white hamills for shirts

28 gallons rumm

All which cost in New York money, For provision to the Indians and repairing their arms Cash for Messengers, Indian Scouts for intelligence of the Enemyes motion p d by Mr Dellius, Mr. Barker, Maj r Schuyler

k Major Wessells

From England £200 stg in New York money is

£1695413 130 19

100 00

260 00 In all £660

4 11£

COUNT FKONTENAc's EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ONONDAGAS.

At a Meeting of the Sachems of the Five Nations at Albany the first of October 1696. Present

His Excell. Coll. Benjamin Fletcher, &c. Coll. Nicholas Bayard

William Pinhorne Esq r

Major Peter Schuyler Matth: Clarkson, Esq r Sec*.

The May r Aldermen of Albany &c Sanonguirese a Sachim of the Mohaques was Speaker Brother Cayenquiragoe

We returne you thanks for what you have said the day before yesterday in condoling of our losse, and for the kettles which you gave us to boyle our victuals in the room of those that are lost by the enemy as also for the two Belts of Wampum given us as a token of your sincerity, by which our hearts are mightily rejoiced and lifted up in this our poor condition.