New York 24th August 1727. which I have been building this Spring at Oswego, at the mouth of the Onnondages River, was upon the point of being finished, when at the same time I learnt by an Express that the Governour of Canada had sent a summons to the said Fort to have it Demolished and abandoned in 15 days, copies whereof in French & English both as they were delivered to I had News that the Fort

the

commanding officer there, are herewith transmitted.

arrived

Soon after my receiving this Summons

here the Governour of trois rivieres in Canada, who is next in rank to the Governour

This Gentleman with his attendants is to the Governour General of Canada. was sent by the Governour of Canada to deliver a letter from him to me, and to persuade me to abandon this Fort for the present and to leave it to be afterwards settled between the two Crowns, who had the Right to that place. I agreed to leave it to be decided between the two Crowns as he proposed but in the mean time thought myself obliged to hold and maintain it. I have enclosed copies of the Governour of Canada's letter to me in French and my answer to him in the same language, together with my own translation of both letters, wherein Your of Montreal, as he

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PAPERS RELATING TO OSWEGO.

Lordships will find the whole argument stated on both sides. the French

from the Original Latin, but I think and as strongly in the Latin as in either.