I have more reason every day, from talking with the Indians, to be confirmed in this suspicion, I am inclined to believe, tho' this purchase was publicly consented to at Albany, some of the 6 Nations are disgusted at it & others repent their consenting to it, and that part of them do underhand connive at the Disturbances between the Susquahanna Indians and the Province of Pensilvania, whose raising Forces and building Forts on the Susquahanna River, tho' it hath very plausible Pretences, is at the Bottom bad policy & really intended to secure Lands Wh. it would more for the true Interest of the community to give up, at least for the present, I conceive the most effectual method of producing Tranquility to that Province would be, a voluntary & open Surrender of that Deed of Sale, fix with the Indians, in the best manner they can, the Bounds for their Settlements & make them Guaranties to it. I know that this Land was fairly & publickly paid for & that the Indians are unjust & unreasonable to recant & keep the money ; but if the Times & good Policy require it, to yield will be more advantageous than to contest, tho' on the side of Justice. Besides 'tis private property & the general Welfare suffers by persisting in the Title to it.

I proposed herewith to have transmitted your Lordships the acc^. of the Disbursements of what monies I have hitherto received, w^h. is ^£10,000 sters. ; but as I have for some time past been obliged to be frequently absent from home upon His Majesty's Service, it hath prevented their being closed & now ready, bvt they shall go by the next Packet, in the mean time I shall laj them before My Lord Loudoun for his Perusal.