The Regard, which the Proprietarys of Pennsylvania ha\e at all times shewn for Your Majesty's Interest and the Publick Service, leaves Us no room to doubt of their Acquiescence in this Opinion, And We have reason to hope that their laudable design of promoting the Good of that Service by their generous Proposal will not be defeated by it, as We Observe upon an Examination of the best Geographical Description and Dilineation of this Country, that there is within the Province of Pennsylvania a space of Land between the Mountains and the Limits of the Lands described in the Deed of 1726, more than sufficient for this or any larger Settlement which may be proposed. Whicii is most humbly Submitted.

, Dunk Halifax.

J. Pitt. Whitehall i (Sign'd) James Oswald

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Decbrthe ll^h 1755. ( Andrew Stone.

708 MANUSCRIPTS OF

SIR WM. JOHNSON TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.

Mount Johnson 18th Deer 1755

My Lords

The Season of the year & other circumstances made jt necessary to klose the campaign & discharge the Provincial Troops under my command.

When I first knew of my appointment to Indian affairs, I repeated my desire of being excused from my military command, I was Sensible & pleaded that it woud, as it actually did, So interfere with my administration of Indian affairs, that I could not attend them in the manner I wished to have done. By my Military Engagements I have not been able to be at my own House or in the Indian Country one day this four months. And now I am at last got home & am just entering into the administration of Indian affairs so as to form & conduct them to the extent of my knowledge and abilities for the good of His Majesty's Service, I am again obtructed & everything brot to a stand by Gen^ Shirleys Sending me a new Commission & Instructions for the management of Indian affairs & ordering me to attend him either at New York or Boston, the least of w^ti is 200 miles distant from hence ; this journey I am but ill qualified for upon acct of my wound the effects of wch I still feel.