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

of the approach of the enemy, they neglected the advices they received and so fell an easy prey.

PAPERS RELATING TO THE ONEIDA COUNTRY AND MOHAWK VALLEY.

MR. DAINE TO THE MINISTER. Paris Doc. XIV. ]

[

Quebec, 19 May, 1756.

Annexed are two little Eelations or Summaries of what has occurred of most interest since the deThe damage inflicted on the English in horned cattle, sheep and horses has been greatly exaggerated in the Relation of M. de Bellestre's expedition of the 28 th November 1757. It must be diminished at least a good half. It is still more exaggerated in regard to

parture of the ships last year.

furniture, wearing apparel, merchandize and liquors which are carried up to fifteen hundred thousand livres, as well as the loss of the Palatine's village in Indian corn.

M.

DE VAUDREUIL TO THE MINISTER. [

Paris Doc.

XV. ] Montreal, 28 June, 1758.

M. de Bellestre's success last autumn in destroying the village of the Palatines and carrying the forts that