our Vessells should be built, & the Regiment quartered, the Climate is temperate, & the lands exceeding Fertile, so that in three years time from their going thither, provisions of all kinds (sufficient for the Regiment
& Vessells) may be raised, Except only Beef, which will require a year or two more,
in the mean time cattle may be drove thither from the County of Albany, with as much ease as they
are now to the Garrison at Oswego, & no sooner will the Regiment will go thither
under their cover to
settle in that
march towards it, than farmers
Country, being sure both of protection, & of a
market for what they raise,
The Five Nations being acknowledged by the Treaty of Utrecht to be subject to the Dominion of Great Britain, & the Lake lying in their Country, it being surrounded by their Lands, I hiunbly submit it, whether we have not a Right, even before a Rupture to assume the
Dominion thereof, and to destroy the Forts the French have built in the Country of those Cantons, especially if we
have their concurrence, of which & of their assistance too, I make no doubt, when
they see the Regiment among them.
When we have thus vindicated our Right & established our Dominion on the Lake, the Regiment may then be employed in the reduction of the Fort at the Crown Point, wherein, if there be need, we may I believe have assistance from the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, who have settlements not far from thence, and who claim the lands adjoining to it, & one of them even that whereon the Fort is built.