So we bid you heartily farewell and are

Your very loving Friends & Humt"*® Servants Dunk Halifax To Sf Danvers OsbornGov"" of New York J. Grenville

Albany June 1754 Dupplin

a true Copy of the Original Exam"! by Gw. Banyar D. Secrey

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 559

And also were read the following papers from the Commissioners of Indian Affairs at Albany, (viz)

Albany 15th of June 1754 At a Meeting of the Commissioners of Indian Allairs at Mr Lutteridges. Present

CoRo Myndert Schuyler Cap* Hubert Marshall Command' of

Robert Saunders Esq^ ) the Fort.

Mayor of the City ^ Cornelius Cuyler 'I

Syb* Van Schaak Recorder John Beekman 1

John Renselaer V Esq"

Jacob Conradt Ten Eyck Peter Winne J

Peter Wraxall Secretary.

His Honour the Lieu* Governor The Honourable James De Lancey Esq'" having directed Coll^ Myndert Schuyler to convene the Commissioners of Indian Affairs that they might consult together if they had any matters in particular to recommend to his Honour upon the approaching Interview with the Six Nations,

In Consequence hereof the Commissioners are of Opinion, that the Six Nations who now live dispersed & Confused, should in the most earnest manner be exhorted to unite and dwell together in their respective Castles, And that the Mohawk Nation should live in one Castle only.

That his honour apply to the Onondaga Indians in particular to direct and exhort them to live together in one Castle according to their Antient and prudent Custom, and to cause all their friends and Relations wheresoever dispersed to join them, particularly those who have Separated themselves and live at present at Swccgassie where the French have lately Fortified, have a Garrison and where a French Missionary constantly resides in order to draw them off from our Alliance. At this Sweegassie the French have lately made a Settlement of Indians belonging to the Six Nations of which the greatest part are from Onondaga &Cayouge.