Banyar writes me that my Pattent is ready for the seal, I hereinclose a note of Hand for the amount of your Honours

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 657

Foes, which I hope you will accept. The many disappointments I have lately mett with, together with my purchase of Lands, Ginseng &'=a puts it out of my power at present to advance that sum ; otherwise I would have paid it with pleasure.

I am Yrs

Wm. Johnson.

THE SAME TO THE SAME. Sir

I returned last night from the Conhogohery Indian Castle having first been at the Mohock Castle.

At both Settlements I have fixt on Places to build them Forts. At the hither Castle I propose it to be nearly on a Line with Fort Hunter, to take in the Church as a Bastion & to have a Communication Pallisado between the two Forts, which will be a small Expence & in case of an Attack may be of great Service by mutually assisting each other, and if drove to the necessity of quiting the One they may still maintain the other.

At Conogohery I propose it on the Flat Land out of Gun Shot from the Hill where the Old Block houses now stand, out of wch upon the Point of the said Hill 1 propose to erect a good Block House. On the rear of the intended Fort, there is a clear improved Vale run of more than half a Mile, on the left Flank it will be assisted by the said Block house on the point of the Hill, a Fire between w<=h and the Fort will clear the open Land on that side; the Land is all clear and cultivated in the Front; On the right side there are a few Bushes & small Wood to clear, when all Mdil be open on that side for more than half a Mile, One of the Bastions to serve for a Church.