SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 663

and Commander in Chief of the Forces rais'd & to be rais'd by the aforesaid five Governments or any of them for the Service of the aforesaid Expedition ; as also of such Indians as shall assist his Majesty in the same.

You are therefore to take upon yo,u the Command of the said Forces, and diligently to execute the Duty & Office of Commander in Chief of the said Expedition, according to such Instructions as you shall receive from me .bearing even date v^ith these Presents : and to follow such further Orders as you shall from time to time receive from me or any your superior Officer herein : hereby also requiring all Officers & Soldiers employ'd or to be employ'd by the aforesaid five Governments in the said Expedition to obey you as their Commander in Chief.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms the sixteenth Day of April in the twenty eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland" King Defender of the Faitli, &ca and in the Year of our Lord Christ 1755. By his Excellency's Command Sec'ry.

COMMN. OF MAJOR GENERAL TO WILLIAM JOMSON ESQ^.

By the Hono^'ie: James DeLancey Esq'", his Majesty's Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories Depending thereon in America. To William Johnson Esquire Greeting

Whereas upon the Recommendation of his Excellency William Shirley Esqr Captain General and Governour in Chief of his Majesty's Province of the Massachusets Bay, That Government and the several other Governments of Kew Hampshire, Connecticut 1^3^ ue Island and this Province, have respectively raised a body of Men, amounting in the \yhole to about four thousand, to be eojployed in an Attempt to erect a Strong Fortress upon an Eminence near the French Fort at Crown point ; And for removing the Incroachments of the French on his Majesty's Lands there.