The Governor knows what our Complaint is, and we now desire to know when that affair will be settled, as it was promised that Satisfaction should be given us on that Article.
Here Hendrick ended his Speech.
M"" Penn one of the Commissioners from Pensylvania declared that himself in Conjunction with the other Commissioners of that Government were about purchasing from the Six Nations a Tract of Land within the Boundaries of the said Government below the Latitude 42 -- and the Indians also then published their Intention of making the said Sale at the Commissioners Lodgings. The Governor spoke to the Indians and told them.
That as to what they had said about Rum, he would give them an answer to morrow Morning, that he had received a present for them from the King their Father, and another from this Government which he would give to them to Morrow Morning, when he would also give them an answer to those other particulars which require one. As I have given you Satisfaction with respect to one of your Complaints about your Lands and that you have consented that an
SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 5G3
Enquiry into any other shall be deferred untill I arrive at New York, I shall not now say any thing further to you on that affair. Extracted from the Records of Indian Affairs
By Peter Wraxall Secretary
At a Meeting held in the Court House at Albany
on Saturday the 6 July 1754 A. M. Present
All the Commissioners for Massachusetts Bay.