I am inclined was publicly consented to at Albany, some of the Six Nations are disgusted at it, and others repent their consenting to it, and that part of them do underhand connive at the Disturbance between the Susquehannah Indians & the Province of Pensilvania whose raisingforces and building Forts on the Susquehana, tho' it hath very plausible pretences is at the bottom bad policy and really intended to secure Lands which it would be more for the true interest of the community to give up at least for the present. I conceive the most effectual method of producing tranquility to that province would be a voluntary and open surrender of that Deed of Sale, fix with the Indians in the best manner they can the Bounds for their Settlements and make them Guarantees to believe that this purchase

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" The Proprietors are pleased to introduce their observations with a challenge to Sir William Johnson and all the World to shew any one Instance of their Conduct that has given dissatisfaction to the Six Nations and which they say those Nations will readily acknowledge in any free Conference."

Tho' the real Intent of the above paragraph from Sir William Johnson's letter was, and its obvious

meaning is, to assign a cause to winch he suspected the Indians' Hostilities in Pensilvania were in a Yet upon Sir William Johnson saying he was inclined to believe & ca The Proprietors are pleased to sound this unprovoked challenge, which tho to answer as well as to have given is departing from the main argument, Yet Sir William Johnson begs leave to say something in great measure owing.