I am, with great truth, Sir, Your most obed' humble Serv*

John Pownall Secry

[Here follow arts. 90, 91, 92 & 93 of His Majesty's Instructions to Sir Charles Hardy, Gov. of N. York, but we have not room for them at present.]

GENL. JOHNSON TO THE REPRESENTATIVES OF QUEEN'S COUNTY.

Octob. 10. 1755. Gentlemen,

A few days aG;o I received a letter from Mess^^. Schuyler &.

Depeister, of Albany acquainting me that you had sent to them G9

SIR WILI-IAM JOHNSON. 703

cheeses and 200 sheep, being part of 1000 raised in Queen's coui^.ty ®n Long Island as a present to this Army, and which they had forwarded to me. Tliis letter was read at a Council of War. consistmg of all the field officers in this camp, which I sununoned yesterday afternoon.

The most equitable and useful division hath been made of this generous and public-spirited present, which we could follow.

Tho cattle and a few sheep had been sent by some of the Provinces to their Troops, yet your sheep were very Seasonable ; and highly beneficial to the Arm in general. Your Cheeses were highly acceptable and reviving ; for unless amongst some of the officers, it was food scarcely known among us.

This generous humanity of Queens county is unanimously and gratefully applauded by all here ; we pray that your benevolence may be returned to you by the Great Shepherd of human Kind, a hundred fold ; and may those Amiable housewifes, to whose skill we owe the refreshing Cheeses, long contiune to shine in their useful and endearing stations.