cess he experienced ; invited them to persevere in their good Sentiments and not to fear the English.

Our Oneida delegate rejoined M. Belletre at the River Au Sable [Sandy Creek, Jeffer. Co.] and told him that the Five Nations had sent three Belts to the Oneida Villages of which they wished him to take charge as a present to the General. By these they demand assistance to resist the English being about to experience their resentment inasmuch as they refused to allow four of their Chiefs to enter

Fort Kouari having fired several shots at them.

This had obliged the Oneidas to withdraw their

women and children from the Lake side, hoping their Father will protect them.

M R DE LANCY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE. .

[Lond. Doc. XXXIV.]

New York 5. January, 1658.

may be proper to acquaint your Lordships that we had the misfortune on the 12 th November to loose a valuable settlement on the North side of the Mohawks river opposite to Fort Hareniger, called It

the German Flatts, the loss is estimated at twenty thousand pounds this money, it is as fertile a piece

of ground as any perhaps in the world the settlers were generally rich, and had good buildings on their lands, some of the inhabitants were slain, about one hundred carried into captivity, their houses

and barns with the crops destroyed by Fire. Canadians & .Indians

;

This was done by a party of about three hundred

the people there thought themselves in great security and though advertised