" I am inclined to believe, tho' this Purchase was Publickly " consented to, at Albany some of the Six Nations, are disgusted " at it, and others repent their consenting to it, and that Part of " them do underhand connive at the disturbance between the " Sasquahannah Indians and the Province of Pennsylvania ; whose " raising Forces, and building forts on the Suquahannah Rivor tlio' " it hath very Plausible pretences, is at the bottom Policy, aj;d " realy intended to secure Lands, which it would be 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, and make " them Guaranties to it.

" The Proprietors are Pleased to Introduce their Observations " with a Challenge, to Sir William Johnson, and all the World to " shew any one Instance of their Conduct, that has given dissat- " isfaction to the Six Nations, and which they say those Nations " wull readily acknowledge, in any free Conference" --

Tho' the real intent of the above Paragraph, from Sir William Johnson's Letter, was and its obvious meaning is, to Assign a Cause to which he suspected the Indian Hostilities in Pennsylvania,

were in a great measure owing Yet upon Sir William Johnson