That Your Petitioner, As agent appointed by the Assembly of the Provinces of Pensylvania (in which as well as in Your Majestys adjacent Provinces, the Lives and Properties of many Thousands of Your Majesty's Subjects will be in the utmost Danger, should the Hostilities of the Indians be renewed) begs Leave humbly to represent the Premises to Your Majesty and Prays

That Your Majesty would be pleased to take the Premises into Your Royal Consideration, and to do therein, as to Your Majesty in Your great Wisdom shall seem meet. And Your Petitioner shall ever pray &c^. (signd)

B. Franklin

REPORT ON THE PRECEDING PETITION.

To the Right Hon^ic. the Lords of the Committee of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council for Plantation Affairs. My Lords,

Pursuant to your Lordships Order dated the 12*^, of April last, we have takdh into consideration the humble Petition of Benjamin Franklin Esq^". Agent appointed by the Assembly of Pennsylvania, relating to the Differences subsisting between His Majesty's Subjects and the Indians bordering upon the said Province, concerning large Quantities of Land, which the said Indians allege they have been deprived of without their Consent, or Satisfaction made them, for the same, particularly of the Lands which are included within the Forks of the River Delawar, and also of other lands on both sides the said River; And having been attended by the Petitioner, and also by the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and heard what each

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. ,i3

Party had to offer upon the Occasion, We beg leave to acquaint your Lordships.