The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 40
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Ben Fletcher Signed David Jamison CI. Concilij. [ Council Minutes VII. ] I Esq" Att a Council held at his Matyes ffort in New Yorke the 18th of August 1696 Present His Excell : Benjamin Fletcher &c. Steph Cortlandt } John Lawrence Nich : Bayard V EsqrS Caleb Heathcote Gabr Monvielle y Resolved the Indians of the two Nations of Onnondage and Oneyde whose Corn is destroyed by the enemy be supplyed the ensuing winter at the charge of this Government. Ordered no Indian Corne be brought down the river from Albany Vlster and Dutchesse Countyes untill the Indians be supplyed this ensueing winter and that the Commissioners appointed to treate with the Indians in his Excell : absence do purchase soe much corne as is necessary for them.