This suggestion of Sir William Johnson appears to be tlie more extraordmary, from his having consented to a Treaty with the Six Nations, propos'd by Hendrick the Mohawk Chief in the Sprino- 1755, on their being greatly dissatisfied with a Purchase intended to be privately made by the People of Connecticut, to sign which they had gone from House to House, & persuaded some Indians to put their names to it, and which Treaty was to be held at Mount Johnson, for the Sale of Land on both Eranches of the River Sasquehannah, to the Northern Boundary of Pennsylvania, which Proposal was communicated to the Lieu* Governor of New York, who laid it before his Council, and the Consent of the Governor & Council to that intended Purchase, provided it did not run Northward above y^ Latitude of 42 Degrees, was sent by Col° Johnson to the Agents of the Proprietors of Pennsylvania, but no further Steps were taken to bring on this Treaty, as Hendrick & several other Indian Chiefs went to the Army, & were soon after kill'd in the Action at Lake George.

In answer to another Suggestion of Sir William Johnson's that " the raising Forces and building Forts on Sasquehannah by Order " of the Government of Pennsylvania, tho' it hath plausible " Pretences, is at the bottom bad Policy, and really intended to " secure Lands, which it would be more for the Interest of the " Community to give up;" They beg leave to say, that this Insinuation is without any sort of foundation, as it never would have been attempted. Lad not the Chiefs of the Indians living on Sasquehcmnah, & Delaware River, on their own motion, intirely, desired they should be built, at Shamokin, & *ncar Wyomen, for their own Security as well as of that of the Settlers in Pennsylvania, & promised at the same time to bring their Famihes and Friends to settle about, & between them, and also urged the Government of Pennsylvania, to declare War against the Ohio Indians.