216 THE THREE WAR-PARTIES. [1690. 



Glen that he was specially charged to pay a debt 

 which the French owed him. On several occasions, 

 he had saved the lives of French prisoners in the 

 hands of the Mohawks ; and he, with his family, 

 and, above all, his wife, had shown them the 

 greatest kindness. He w T as now led before the 

 crowd of wretched prisoners, and told that not 

 only were his own life and property safe, but that 

 all his kindred should be spared. Glen stretched 

 his privilege to the utmost, till the French Indians, 

 disgusted at his multiplied demands for clem- 

 ency, observed that everybody seemed to be his 

 relation. 



Some of the houses had already been burned. 

 Fire was now set to the rest, excepting one, in 

 which a French officer lay wounded, another be- 

 longing to Glen, and three or four more which he 

 begged the victors to spare. At noon Schenectady 

 was in ashes. Then the French and Indians with- 

 drew, laden with booty. Thirty or forty captured 

 horses dragged their sledges ; and a troop of 

 twenty-seven men and boys were driven prisoners 

 into the forest. About sixty old men, women, and 

 children were left behind, without farther injury, 

 in order, it is said, to conciliate the Mohawks in 

 the place, who had joined with Glen in begging 

 that they might be spared. Of the victors, only 

 two had been killed. 1 



1 Many of the authorities on the burning of Schenectady will be 

 found in the Documentary History of Neiv York, I. 297-312. One of the 

 most important is a portion of the long letter of M. de Monseignat, comp- 

 troller-general of the marine in Canada, to a lady of rank, said to be 

 Madame de Maintenon. Others are contemporary documents pre- 



