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LYST OF Y® PERSONES WHICH Y® FRENCH AND THERE INDIANS HAVE TAKEN PRISONERS ATT SKINNECH-TADY AND CARIED TO CANIDA Y® 9 th DAY OF FEBRUARY 16||.
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Johannes Teller and his negroe
John Wemp sonne of Mynd 1 Wemp & 2 negroes " ®
Symon, Abraham, Phillip, Dyrck & Claes Groot all 5 sonnes of Symon Groot - - 5
Jan Baptist sonne of Jan Van Epps
Albert & Johannes Vedder sonnes of harme Vedder - ^
Isaak Cornelise Switts & his Eldest Sonne - ^
a negroe of Barent Janse - - - -- -- *
Arnout y® sonne of Arnout Corn: Viele y e Interp r ------ 1
Stephen y® sonne of Gysbert Gerritse - - ■ ‘‘ ^
Lawrence sonne of Claes Lawrence Purmurent - - - ■ ^
Arnout sonne of Paulyn Janse .-------1
Barent y e sonne of Adam Vroman & y® neger ------ 2
Claes sonne of Franse Harmense -------- i
Stephen adopted sonne of Geertje Bouts _------l
John Webb a souldier Belonging to Capt Bull ------ 1
David Burt belonging to y® same Comp® - - - - ~ * *
Joseph Marks of y® same Comp® - - - - - - - -1
In all - - - - 27
THE WAY HOW Y® BLOODY FRENCH AND INDIANS COMMITTED THIS TRAGEDY WAS THUS.
After they were gott into y® Toune without being discovered (no watch or guard being kept, notwith-standing several gent" of Albany no longer than three days before were up there to Perswade y m toit) The french and y e Indians besett each house and after they had murthered y® People they burntall y® houses and barns Cattle &ca Except 5 @ 6 : which were saved by Cap 1 Sander to whom theywere kinde as they had particular orders so to be by reason of y e many kindnesse shewne by hiswife to y® french Prisoners.
Albany if 22 day of february 16f j.
Symon Van Ness and Andries Barents who went out y® first w lh y e Maquaese returning told;they had Pursued y« Enemy to y® great Lake & would have overtaken them had they not been spyedby some of y e Enemy Indians that went out to looke for 2 Negroe boys, y‘ were Iiunn away fromthem, & y‘ y® Indians & Christians were all Tyred when they came to y e Croune Point neer y c Lake;some went further till they came to where y° Ise was Smoth; where the french had with horses thatthey carried from Skinnechtady & Skeets and Yse Spurs, made all the way they could over y® Lakein so much that our People could gain nothing upon them; whereas at first they went 2 of theredays journeys in one; neverthelesse Laurence y® Maquase and about 140 Mohoggs & River Indiansare gone in Pursuite of them, & will follow them quite to Canida.