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. The four Gentlemen of the Council of New York ^ Martin Howard Jun' Benj^^ Franklin and > took their Scats.

Abraham Barnes Esq" y

M^" Murray delivered at the Board, His Honour the Lieu* Governor's Answer in writing to the Message delivered to h'S

596 MANUSCRIPTS OF

Honour in the Morning by M^' Welles and M^ Pitkin which was

read and is as follows

Gentlemen

In answer to }our Message to me of this Day I acquaint you, that Yesterday I had the Sachems of the Connajohery Castle before me in Council, to conclude the matter in Controversey between some Germans and one Teady Magin, relating to an Indian Purchase, that had occasioned the greatest uneasiness among the Indians of that Castle, which after two Meetings was then formerly and finally settled to the Satisfaction of all parties.

I then took Occasion to obsei-ve to them, that at their Meeting on the 2^ Inst. I desired them to open their Minds fully and that I expected they would then have laid all their Complaints before me. That as to what they had mentioned in their public Speech on the 4^ Inst. I was not acquainted with any other particular Complaints, until I came to this place, being abroad on the Circuit at the time they made them at New York, and then I promised as soon as I returned thither, I would look into them, and do them all the Justice that lay in my Power, with which they declared themselves well Satisfied and thanked me.