Rhode Island By the Honourable William Green Esq'" Governor { Locus ? and Captain General of the English Colony of { Sigilli 3 Rhode Island and Providence Plantation in Nevr England in America. To Stephen Hopkins, and Martin Howard Jun^ Esq" Greeting

Whereas the Geneml Assembly of this Colony have on their parts chosen and appointed you to meet with the Commissionersof the other Governments at Albany on the fourtgrnlh day of this

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 5i4l9>

Instant June and join with them in a Treaty with the Six Nations of Indians in order to Secure the Interest of his Majesty and bi^i good Subjects in those parts.

I do therefore by Virtue of an act of the General Assembly of this Colony, authorise impower and Commissionate You the sa^tt Stephen Hopkins and Martin Howard Jun"" forthwith to repair to Albany aforesaid, and there in behalf of this Colony to meet and join with the other Commissioners in Consulting what Methods are proper to be used, to preserve the Friendship of the aforesaid Sbs Nations of Indians and their Attachments to the British Interest in America, and also what else may be necessary to prohibit the French and their Allies the Indians, from encroaching on the Lands within the Dou:inions of his Majesty. And in General as far as the Abilities of this Government will permit, to act in Conjunction with the said Commissioners in every thing necessary, for the good of his Majesties Subjects in those parts, and to Answer as far as we can the Designs of his Majesties Instructions to this Colony communicated to us, by the Earl of Holderness. --