Johnson assembles these companies when he has news of any expedition which may concern the

Mohawk river. In the latter part of April 1757, on receiving intelligence by the savages that there was a strong detachment ascending the river St. Lawrence and entering Lake Ontario, he assembled these Companies and went to the Village of the Palatines where he was joined by another body of 11 men sent him by the commandant of Orange; this formed in alia force of 2000 men.

@ 1200 He entrenched himself at the head of the Palatine Village where he remained in Camp fifteen days, and did not retire until lie received intelligence that the French detachment seen on the River St. Lawrence

had passed by and taken the route to the Belle Riviere (Ohio.) This was the detachment of 500 men that had been sent last year to reinforce Belle Riviere, and had left Montreal in the latter days of the month of April.

XIX.

PAPERS RELATING TO

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Vot. I.]

Seigniories on

Cake Complain*

THE BOARD OF TRADE AND PLANTATIONS TO LT. GOV. COLDEN.

JULY 1764.

[Lond. Doc. XXXVII. ]

Monsieur Michel Chartier de Lotbiniere, heretofore an officer in the French King's Service in Canada has presented to us a Memorial desiring the confirmation of two Concessions in America, the one called D'Alainville, four leagues and upwards in front, part upon Lake George and part upon

Crown Point River, and extending in depth five leagues to the West, granted by the Marquis de Vaudreuil in 1758 ; the other situated opposite to Crown Point, having the same extent in Front & extending in depth five leagues to the East, purchased of Mons r Hocquart in 1762, to whom it is alleged to have been granted in 1743 and 1745.