I am directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations to send you the inclosed Order of His Majesty in Council of the 29th of August last, containing His Majesty's Directions with respect to a Rehearing and Examination of the Complaints of the Indians, inhabiting the western part of the Province of Pensylvania, of their having been deprived of large Tracts of Land without their Consent or any Satisfaction made to them for the same: And that you may be fully informed of every Circumstance relative to the Proceedings upon which this Order is founded, I am also directed to send you at the same time a Copy of the Order of the Lords of the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs, referring the Petition of M*" Franklin to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, togetlier with their Lordships Report upon it. I am,

Sir, Your most obedient and most humble Servant, John Pownall Secry

SIR W. JOHNSON TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.

Fort Johnson 5th June 1760. My Lords,

As I am in doubt whether your Lordships have Received my Letter of the 17*^ May 1759 and my Proceedings with the confederate Indians before I took the field last Year with Brig^r Geni Prideaux there being no mention made of them in y^ Lordships last Letter, I now send Duplicates of both among which the Treaty at Conojohary may shew to your Lordships that my Labours have not been in vain, it being concluded on at that time, by a general convention of the Six Nations & their Allies, after many Solicitations and interesting Arguments Suggested to them by me, to join us against the Enemy, which they did, last year to the .annouat of above a thousand fighting men at Niagaroii from whence