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.

They cannot conceive that the last purchase made of Land to the Westward of Sasquehannah, could possibly be .the cause of the Hostilities committed by the Indians living on that River, as it did not include any of the Land on which they were settled, or any near them, which will at once appear from the Bounds of that Purchase, laid down on the last Map published by Evans, the course of the North Boundary of that Purchase having been agreed to, that the West Branch of Sasquehannah might be reserved to tlie Indians, beyond the Bend in that River, and the Land sold is at a vast distance from their principal Settlements, which are at W^yomen, and on the Eastern Branch.