Our Governor and Commander in Chief of our said Province of New Hampshire in New England this third Day of June 1754 and in the Twenty Seventh Year of our Reign.

B. WENTWORTH

By His Excellencys

Command. Theodore Atkinson

Theodore Atkinson Secy R. Wibird

Copy Exd per Meshech Weare

Hen: Sherburne Jun'.

Connecticut

Sigilum Colonic Conecticut ences

Thomas Fitch Esq"" Governor and Commander

in Chief of his Majestys English Coloney of

Connecticut in New England in America.

To William Pitkin Roger Wolcot Jun^ & Elisha Williams

Esquires Greeting.

Whereas you are by the General Assembly of said Colony

nominated and Appointed to be Commissioners in behalf of said

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Colony to meet such Commissioners as are or shall be appointed by his Majesty's other Governments in America, at a General Interview at Albany on the fourteenth day of June next and Join with them in concerting proper Measures for the General Defence and safety of his Majesties Subjects in said Governments and the Indians in Alliance with them against the French and their Indians. Therefore in pursuance of said Act of Assembly, you the said William Pitkin, Roger Wolcot Jun^ and Elisha Williams Esq'"S are Commissioned Authorized and impowered in behalf of this his Majesties Colony of Connecticutt to meet the Commissioners appointed by his Majesties other Governments in America at Albany on the 14'1* day of June next, and in Concert with such Commissioners from his Majesties other Governments as shall i.eet there to consult proper Measures for the General defence, and safety of his Majesty's Subjects in said Governments and the Indians in his Alliance against the French, and their Indians; and to use and pursue proper measures in pursuance of your Instructions from, tlie said General Assembly, relateing to the matters aforesaid