Drive the English of that are at or near Ohico &. oblidge The Meomies to come and live were they shall order them All tlie indjans who have been here say they and all Indians are to joyn them, while the Bmit was here I had him always with me and did all Lay in my Powar to oblidge him he showed the Greatist sence of it & said he would all ways do what I asked as he allways had done he is much uiclined to us & am Convinced that if Coll Johnson sends for him he will come & take our affairs in hand Hertily & I think he hath it more in his Powar then any to bring things to rights nor is it to be done without him this is my Sentiments & I hope you will pardon my liberty in giveing them, if you approve of what I have said & desire me to bring him down with me ile do my indeavours and he never yet hath refused what 1 asked of him, there are some French here who mett the Army about Hundred miles to the west of Nigra.

John Lindesay To The Honourable

Coll W^ Johnson

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM CO^^^^ JOHNSON OF 26TH MARCH 1753. I am surprized that Governour Dinuidde would atempt to disprove the Message delivered your Excellency from the Five Nations last Spring (" which was that they at a general Meeting "at Onondaga had resolved not to go to Virginia, on said "Governours call, it not being custoiuary among them to meet or " treat of Affairs in the Woods and Weeds (as they expressed it,) " but desired he might be acquainted, that if he wanted to speak "with them and deliver His Majesty's present, as they understood " he intended, they would meet him at Albany and receive it, "where they expected your Excellency would be present,") by asserting that his Commissioners mett and treated with several of the Chiefs of the six Nations last May, at Logstown, and then delivered His Majesty's Present cto the^m, which he says they were much pleased w'.th. and that the Wampum which he sent to call