Burnet to the Board of Trade.

New York, Oct. 16, 1721. That I miglit improve their (the Indians') present good humor to the best advantage I have employed the live hundred pounds granted this year by the Assembly chiefly to the erecting and encouraging a settlement a Tirandaquet a Creek on the Lake Ontario about sixty miles on this side Niagara whither there are now actually gone a company of ten persons with the approbation of our

Indians and with the assurance of a sufficient number of themselves to live with them and be a

guard to them against any surprize, and because the late President of the Council Peter Schuyler's son 3 first offered his service to go at the head of this expedition I readily accepted him and have made him several presents to Equip him and given him a handsome allowance for his own salary and a Commission of Captain over the rest that are or may be there with him and Agent to treat with the Indians from me for purchasing Land and other things which I the rather did that I might

shew that I had no personal dislike to the family. This Company have undertaken to remain on this Settlement and that never above two shall be absent at once, and tho' these have the sole encouragement at present out of the public money yet there is nothing that hinders as many more to go and settle there or any where else on their own account as please. This place is indisputably in the Indians possession and lies very convenient for all the far Indians to come on account of Trade from which the French at Niagara will not easily hinder them because