-- have sent

for the

five Nations of Indians y

belongs to this Governm*. to meet me at this

place, to give them in charge that they should not goe to your side of the Great Lakes nor disturbe

your Indians and Traders, butt since my coming here I am informed that our Indians are apprehensive of warr by your putting stores into Cataract [Cataraqui] and ordering some forces to meet there. I know you are a

man of judgment and that you will not attack the King of England's subjects.

Being informed that those Indians with whom our Indians are engaged in war with, are to the West

and Southwest of the greate Lakes (if so) in reason you can have no pretence to them. It is my intention that our Indians shall not warr with the farr Indians. Whether they doe or not it does not seem reasonable that you should ingage yourself in the quarrell of Indians wee pretend to, against our own Indians. Whether these Territories belong to our or the French King is not to be decided here, but by our Masters at home ; and your business & mine is to take Mapps of the Country so well as we can and to send them home for the limits to be adjusted there.

am likewise informed that you are intended to build a ttbrt at a place called Ohniagero on this

side of the Lake within

my Masters territoryes without question (I cannot believe it,) that a person