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DENONVILLe’s EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.
£ a d
County of Ulster.. . . 408 : 00 : 00
Kings County . .*. 308 :08 :00
Queens County. 308 : 08 : 00
County of Suffolk. 434 :10 : 00
Dukes County. 040 : 00 : 00
Ordered that y e Attorney Generali Draw upp an Act for y e s d tax accordingly.
An establishment to be Allowed to the Officers and Soldiers who hath been att Albany upon thepresent Expedicon viz 4
The Major ten Shillings Curr 44 Money of this Province
The Capt n of horse
Per Diem
. .£ 0 . 10.0
The Cap 4 off ffoott
Per Diem
jeo . 8 .o
The Liev 4 d°
0 . 7.0
The Liev 4 .
0 . 4.0
The Cornett
0 . 6.0
The Ensigne
0 . 3.0
The Quartermaster
0 . 5.0
The Sergeant
0 . 1.6
The Corporall
0 . 2.0
The Corporall
0 . 1.0
The Trumpiter .
0 . 2.0
The Drumbeater .
0 . 1.0
The Troopers
0 . 1.6
The rest of the private men
0 . 0.8
[Lond. Doc. IX.]
In the year 1687 when the French at Canada were making preparations to attack the Five Nations of Indians belonging to New York , Coll. Dongan then Gov r there sent some of the forces of theCountrey to Albany, & went himselfe to sustain the Indians against the French , towards the chargesof w ch Expedition a Countrey Rate and other taxes were laid by the Gov r and Councill in New York amounting to <£3813.6.4 whereof Peter (Livingston) alledges <£1129.3.6 to remain yet unpaid inthe severall Countyes .—Statement of Mr. Livingstons Case , 4rc. Sept. 1695.
[ Paris Doc. IV. ]
On the fifteenth day of September of the Year One thousand, Six hundred and Eighty and^Eight,in the forenoon, Sieur Desbergeres Captain of one of the companies of the Detachment of theMarine, Commandant of Fort Niagara having assembled all the officers, the Rev: Fath r Millet ofthe Society of Jesus Missionary, and others, to communicate to them the orders he received from theMarquis de Denonville Governor and Lieutenant General for the King in the whole extent of NewFrance and Country of Canada , dated the 6 th of July of the present year, wherein he is ordered todemolish the fortification of the said Fort, with the exception of the cabins and quarters, which willbe found standing (en nature) ; We, Chevalier de La Motthe, Lieutenant of a detached company ofthe Marine, and Major of said Fort, have made a Proces Verbal, by order of said Commandant, con-taining a Memorandum of the condition in which we leave said quarters which will remain entire,to maintain the possession His Majesty and the French have for a long time had in this Niagaradistrict.