New France in 1686. (M. de Longueuil writes that) he has given orders to Chevalier de Longueuil his son who commanded there (at Niagara) not to return until the English and Dutch retire from Chou25 July, 1726.

guen where they have been all summer to the number of 300 men, and should he meet their canot 9

on the lake, to plunder them. the Marquis of Beauharnois sends an extract of a letter from Chevalier de 18 Sept 1726. the 5th of 7 ber 1726, in which he states that there are no more English at Niagara Longueuil dated

Choueguen, along the Lake nor in the River and if he meet any of them in the Lake he'll plunder them.

GOV.

BURNET TO THE BOARD OF TRADE. [ Lond.

Doc. XXIII. ]

[New York May 9th 1727. I have this Spring sent up workmen to build a stone house of strength at a place called Oswego, at the mouth of the Onondage River where our principal trade with the far Nations is carried on.

have obtained the consent of the Six Nations to build it, and having intelligence that a party of French of ninety men were going up towards Niagara I suspected that they might have orders to interrupt this work, and therefore I have sent up a detachment of Sixty Souldiers with a Captain and two Lieutenants, to protect the building from any disturbance that any French or Indians may offer to it.

There are 'besides about two hundred traders now at the same place, who are all armed as Militia, and ready to join in defence of the Building and their Trade, in case they are attacked The French :