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They answer that from the time they left them being the
17^th instant they appointed within Seaven Dayes at furthest
to be before the Zachaiah ffort w^ch will be on Wednesday
next the 24^th instant, they being in all about two hundred and
expect to follow them a day or two behind about a hundred

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Maques more, that there were lately downe about Seaventy
Maques and the rest of their Company then were of mixt
nations.
Jacob Young further informes the board that from the dis-
course he had with the Indians in their Journey hither he
gathered that they were afraid of being cutt off their trade at
Albany by the Right Sinniquos, and therefore intended to
strengthen themselves as much as they could with other
Nations for that they would suddenly quarrell with the Sin-
niquos.
Jacob Young p ord^r Demands of them what number they
may consist of and how many Susquesahannohs amongst
them.
They answer they are in all four forts (viz^t) Anondagoes
who consist of three hundred men, Onneydes neere One hun-
dred and Eighty, Quiagoes three hundred, Mohaukes als
Maques at least three hundred, and amongst these four
nations are some Susquesahannohs but how many they cannot
tell, some are amongst the right Sinniquos they beleive were
they altogether they might make about a hundred fighting
men, their are fourteen Susquesahannohs with the Onneydes,
Seaven with the Anondagoes but the chiefe of them are
among the Quiagoes.
They likewise say that another Nation called the black
Mingoes are joined with the Sinnondowannes who are the
right Sinniquos that they were soe informed by some New
York Indians whom they mett as they were comeing downe
they told them that the black Mingoes in their way comeing
to the Sinniquos were pursued by some Southern Indians sett
upon and routed severall of them taken and bound till the
Sinniquos came into their releife

At a Councill held at the City of S^t Maries the 23^th Day of
August 1681 :
Present as Yesterday

His L^spp entertaines Conference with the King of Choptico
and Wingatt one of his greate men by themselves, and after-
wards with the King of Mattawoman and Jackanapes an
Indian belonging to him who had formerly been taken prisoner

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