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Monsieur de La Barre to Governor Dongan
(June 15, 1684)
de La Barre in: Documents Relative to the Colonial History
of the State of New York, (Lon. Doc: V), v. III, pp. 447-448.
pp. 447, 448.
Montreal 15th June 1684.
Sir
The unexpected attack which the Iroquois, Senecas and Cayugas have made on a fort [Ft. St. Louis-JHK] whither I sent a gentleman of my household to withdraw thence Sieur de la Salle, whom I sent at their request to France, and the wholesale plunder of seven French Canoes laden with (page 448) merchandize for the Trade, and the detention during ten days of 14 Frenchmen who were conducting them up, and that in a time when I was in a quiet and peaceable negotiation with them, oblige me to attack them as people from whose promisses we have nothing to expect but murder and treason; but I did not wish to do this without advising you of it, and telling you at the same time, that the Mohawks and Oneidas, neighbours of Albany, having done me no wrong, I intend to remain at peace with them and not attack them.
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