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

that has your reputation in the world would follow the steps of Mons r Labarre and be ill advised by

some interested persons in your Governm 4 to make disturbance between our Masters subjects in these parts of the world for a little pillitree when all these differences may be ended by an amicable ;

correspondence between us, If there be any thing amiss I doe assure you

it shall not

be my fault,

though we have suffered much, and doe dayly by your People's trading within the King of England's territoryes. I have had two letters from the two Fathers that lives amongst our Indians, and I find them somewhat disturbed with an apprehension of war, which is groundlesse, being resolved that it shall not begin here, and I hope your prudent conduct will prevent it there, and referr all differences

home as I shall doe.

I heare one of the

Fathers is gone to you, and the other that staid I have sent