And Whereas in consequence of my aforesaid Message recommending the said Expedition, & of the Resolves of the Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay thereupon, Copies of both which I transmitted to the before mention'd four neighbouring Governments together with a Letter to each of them, urging them to join in the same, as propos'd by the Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay, and nominating you to be the Commander ih Chief of the Provincial Forces to be -employ'd in the said Expedition : The Governments of New York, New Hampshire, Ccmnecticutt & Rhode Island have agreed to raise in the whole two thousand nine hundred men for his Majesty's Service in the aforesaid Expidition, W^h. ^ith fifteeh hundred Men since agreed to be rais'd for the aforesaid Service will make up 4400 Men, and acquiesc'd in my Nomination of you to be Commander in Chief of the said Forces; and Whereas his Excellency Major General Braddock Commander in Chief of all his Majesty's Forces in North America, hath since approv'd of my Appointm*. of. you to tlie said Command : Now reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct, I do, by Virtue of the Authority to me granted in & by his Majesty's Royal Commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain, and in consequence of the several proceedings of the Governments of the aforesaid Colonies of New England and New York, and of the Approbation of Major General Braddock, Appoint you to be Major General