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
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T sent them home loaden with the spoils of the French: and the' the Knt'my put me to a deal of trouble, when their Army was near upon us, by sending some of their Indians under pretence of Parley with ours, but rather to inveigle & intimidate ours, I found means to retain even them, who tho' come into our Camp under French miluence, made them fight against their Old Friends- And after the surrender of the Fort & I had Settl'd the Garrison &<= necessary to be left in it 3 I employed these Indians very successfully, in scndmg them to the foreign Nations, on the over Side of the Lake, and elsewhere, to invite them to come in to me at Niagara & Oswego, where I appointed, which they did, and made friends with us, declaring they were sufficiently tired of the war & sorry for the part they acted against us.