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MANUSCRIPTS OF SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON, 546

PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSIONERS FROM 6 PROVINCES MET AT ALBANY ANNO 1754 ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Massachusetts Bay. William Shirley Esq'" Captain General and Governor in Chief [l s] in and over his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. To Samuel Welles, John Chandler, Thomas Hutchinson, Oliver Partridge, and John Worthington Esq^^. Greeting Wheareas in pursuance of Letters from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Trade and the plantations dated the 28 of August & 19 of September 1753 to the Governor of several of his Majesties plantations in North America a General convention of Commissioners for their Respective Governments is appointed 1' be held at the City of Albany in the Month of June next for holding an Interview vnih the Indians of the Five Nations and maldng them presents on the part of the said Governments usual upon such occasions in order to confirm and Establish their antient attachment to his Majesty and their constant Friendship to his Majesties Subjects on this Continent. And whereas the great and General Court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay aforesaid have elected and appointed you to represent and appear for the Said Province at the Convention aforesaid for the purposes above mentioned; as also for entering into Articles of Union and Con federation with the aforesaid Governments for the General Defence of his Majesties Subjects and Interests in North America as well in time of Peace as in war.