of our Rum, Sloresantl other Goods with a great deal of invective threatening language, and are generally so Numerous that we are Obliged to Submit to those impositions or run the risk of being Murdered and Robbed of every thing we have ; And to put their Schemes the better in Execution they fore away the High Germans who generally attend with their Horses, that we may be under a Necessity of employing them and paying whatever they please to demand.

We therefore humbly pray your Honour to take these our most severe Grievances under due consideration and fall upon such methods to redress them as in your great wisdom shall seem most Expedient, Accept of our most fervent Prayers for your Welfare and Prosperity as we ever remain walh all due Defference, Gratitude and Esteem

Sir your Honours most Dutyfull & most Hupable Servants Oswego June l^t 1754.

To which 47 Seveml Names were Signed. The following Gentlemen Avere appointed a Committee to prepare the Draught of a General Speech to be made by his .Honour to the Indians namely William Johnson Samuel Welles Theodore Atkinson 1 Elisha Williams I Esqi's Martin Howard Jun to whom were delivered Isaac Norris I the aforesaid Papers.

Benj*^ Tasker Jun Adjourned till to Morrrow Morning

At a Meeting at the Court House in Albany

on Thursday the 20th June 1754 A M. Present

His Honour and the aforesaid Council of New York and

Several of the Commissioners,

The Committee appointed Yesterday to prepare a Draught of a