In answer of yours of the 27 we are glad that at last you have, seing the danger you were in with us, & resolved to assist us, when we were so resolutely advanced, in readiness to joine with our confederate Indians to defend and attack his Ma*ies enimies the french and their adherents in our defence, and have joined with us, in a firme unanimous result, to effect which wee had proposed and engaged on very unequall proportiones with us notwithstanding equally concerned in danger, never desiring to choose & commissionat the Major, but resolved that the second commander was to be putt in by Boston, for the new England forces In which we can resolve to no alteratione, the more because before I received any of yours, we have writt to our Commissioners and send up a Commission for Major in blank & ordered to fill it with such persone at Albany as they thought fitt, and proposed Capt. Jacob Millborne whom we know a foreseing prudent & eouragious persone, but have noe newes of his acceptance, we hope he will accept & doubt not of his capacity and behaviour that he will draw the love of the souldiers & contribute what in him shall lye to oblige & agree well with the persone you shall be pleased to send, therefore desire that you may stand to our unanimous result Sl that we may be united, I assure your honor I shall contribute what in me lyes to unite. It is the opinion of our very Indianes that unity is our strenth, we rejoyce to