have been them who Solicited the Indians of Jenango to request the discharge of Vangelder and his Son, it appears to me that the Jenango Indians will think it incumbent on them to interpose bypreventing (as much as lies in their power) the Stockbridge Indians from concerning themselves in this matter. Sir William Johnson Baronet

endorsed. 16 May 1757 L""® from Sir Charles to Sir William Johnson.

SIR WM. JOHNSON TO THE BOAKD OF TRADE.

Fort Johnson June 18. 1757.

My Lords

In the last Letter I had the honour to write your Lordships, I acqainted you, that I had just then finished a Meeting with the SLx Nations, wherein I had charged them with their Inactivity in aiding & assisting His Majestys Arms, &, had insisted upon their giving me the reasons for their Backwardness & Coolness, and also to know possitively from them what their future Resolutions were without any Disguise. I then acquainted your Lordships, that the Six Nations told me, they looked upon the Matters I had laid before them, to be of too important Consequence for the Deputation then present to give me a full &detirminate Answer to -- that they were speedily to hold a Great Council of all the Nations at Onondaga, where what I had then said should be faithfully reported, fully Deliberated upon and when that Council broke up, I should receive their full & Detirminate Answer. That therefore I defered transmitting lo your Lordships what passed at the said Meeting at my House till I had the result of the Meeting at Onondaga, when I would send you both together. Accordingly My Lords I herewith transmit the same to you. I Avas in Expectation to have been able to have done this much sooner, but the unsettled state of the Six Nations amongst themselves, and the Confusions W^^ the too successful Arts of the French Emissaries have thrown them into, have delayed this Meeting at Onondaga much beyond the time they gave me reason to expect it would take place and break ::j^.