R" ^h T Wb" \ ^°" ( ^^^'^^ Commissioners for New Hampshire took their Seats as did also Richard Peters Esq"" one of Commiss'^ for Pensylvania.

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 595

M"^ Hutchinson reported the following Me?sage. " May it please your Honour.

The Commissioners from the Several Governments now met at Albany, observe that in the Speech your honour proposes to make this day to tiie Indians of the Six Nations, and which you have caused to be Communicated to the Board by their Secretary, no Notice is taken of the Complaints of the said Indians relating to their Lands. The Complaint seems by the Letter from the Right Hono^'*-' the Lords of Trade, which your Honour has laid before the board, to have been the Principal Occasion of this unusual and expensive Meeting of Commissioners from so many Colonies, And it appears by the last Answer from the Indians that their uneasiness still remains.

The Commissioners therefore think it incumbent on them to pray your Honour that they may be acquainted with the Particulars of the Complaint, and that they may have an Opportunity of consulting with your Honour proper Measures for removing the causes thereof."

Which was read and unanimously agreed to, and it was thereupon Ordered that M^^ Welles and M'^ Pitkin wait upon his Honour the Lieu* Governor of New Yorke with the same.

Adjourned to 3 oClock this Afternoon.

At a Meeting &c on Saturday the

6th July 1754. P. M. Present

All the Commissioners from Massachusetts Bay All the Commissioners from New Hampshire The Commissioners from Connecticutt Stephen Hopkins Esq"" one of the Commissioners from Rhode Island M' Welles reported to the Board, that he and Mr Pitkin had delivered the Message they were appointed in the Morning to deliver to his Honour the Lieu* Governor of New York.