Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728 to Governor Bradstreet re: French and Indian encounters on the frontiers

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GLC03107.00172-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
1690/06/07
Author/Creator
Livingston, Robert, 1654-1728
Title
to Governor Bradstreet re: French and Indian encounters on the frontiers
Place Written
New London, Connecticut
Pagination
3p. : docket : Height: 30 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
Primary time period
Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
Sub-Era
Native Americans

Livingston writes of his regrets for the capture of the settlement at Cascoe Bay by the French and their Indian allies, and his belief of a need to "Subdue Canada." He then mentions writing to the Government at Albany in an effort to discover the strength and readiness of the men assembled of the Iroquois five nations, and an outbreak of Small Pox in the Albany area. He also writes of the take over of the government of New York (by Jacob Leisler, whom Livingston only mentions). Page three is a copy of the letter written by Livingston to Capt. Nicholson, the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, in which Livingston discusses Jacob Milborne, John de Brandt and Johannes Proovost (three of Leisler's co-conspirators, in Livingston's view), and Jacob Leisler's new powers in New York.

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