The _French_ Governor surprized a Village of the _Five Nations_, who, on the _French_ Faith, liv'd in great Security, but seven or eight Leagues from the _French_ Fort, and sent these miserable People to the Galleys in _France_. He afterwards fell upon the _Sennekas_, and burnt their Villages, but without any Advantage to the _French_, they having lost more Men than the _Indians_ did. This renew'd the War with greater Fury than ever, between the _French_ and _our Indians_. For some time afterwards, _our Indians_, in a great Body, fell upon the Island of _Monreal_, while Mr. _Denonville_ was in the Town: They burnt and destroy'd all the Villages and Houses round _Monreal_, and kill'd some hundreds of Men, Women, and Children. Afterwards they came into the open Fields before _Monreal_, and there defy'd the _French_ Governor, who did not think it proper to fight them. And when they had done all the Mischief they could, they retir'd without any Loss.
About this Time the Revolution happen'd in _Great-Britain_, which was succeeded by a War between _Great-Britain_ and _France_. In _February_, 1689/90, a Party of three hundred Men, consisting of equal Numbers of _French_ and _Indians_, surprized _Schenechtady_ in the Night-time, when the poor People were in their Beds, in the greatest Security, where they barbarously murdered sixty-three Men, Women, and Children, in cold Blood, laid the Village in Ashes, and then retir'd, without reaping any other Advantage besides this cruel Revenge on innocent People, for the Mischief _our Indians_ had done them. This rais'd a cruel War between the two Colonies, in which there was much Mischief done, and Blood shed, without any Advantage to either side.
In Time of this War, the _most Christian King's_ Governor of _Canada_ was so much provoked, that he thought fit to follow the Example of our barbarous _Indians_, and burn his _Indian Prisoners_ alive, in the most cruel Manner, in sight of all the Inhabitants of _Quebeck_, and to deliver up the _English Prisoners_ to the _French Indians_, who indeed had more Mercy, for they kill'd none of them.
King _William_'s Peace put an End to this War; but the Peace lasted so short a while, that the People of this Province hardly had time to re-settle their Farms on the Frontiers, which they had deserted in the Time of the War, much less to adventure trading in the _Indian Countries_, so lately the Scene of so much Cruelty. But both Colonies having now an Abhorrence of the Cruelties of the last War, agreed on a kind of Neutrality for the _Indians_, during Queen _Anne_'s War, in which Time we lost much ground with our own _Indians_: For the _French_ having learn'd, by dear Experience, that it was not possible for them to conquer _our Five Indian Nations_, resolv'd to try all Means to gain their Affections, and in this Art the _French_ are always more successful than in that of War; and the _English_ failing in two ill-concerted Expeditions against _Canada_, the _Indians_ lost much of the Opinion they had of the _English_ Power and Valour.