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.

I have the honour to be with the highest esteem My Lords your Lordships most obed^ and Most faithful Servant,

" Sr. William's Letter to Lords of Trade 10 Sep"*, d". to Lord Halifax 11 Sep^. 1756."

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PllOPRIETORS OF PENNSYLVANIA'S OBSERVATIONS ON SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON'S LETTER

TO THE LORDS OF TRADE RELATING TO INDIAN AFFAIRS.

The Proprietors of Pennsylvania have considered the Extract of Sir William Johnson s Letter sent to them by the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Trade & Plantations, and are much concerned to see in it such Jealousy of their Conduct, and that of their Deputy and Agents suggested, without the least cause given for it, as they can challenge Sir William Johnson & all the World to shew any one Instance of their Conduct, that has given Dissatisfaction to {lie Six Nations, and which those Nations will readily acknowledge in any free Conference, the Proprietors & Province of Pennsylvania having been so much regarded by those Indians, as to be made choice of by them, to settle the differences that had long subsisted between them and the Governments of Virginia & Maryland, at y'' Town of Lancaster, in June & July 1744, which Treaty lyes before the Eoard, & is printed.