Copy of whose Letter I also inclose, which was wrote to me in consequence of my apprizing him, that his Majesty had signified his intentions " That I should look into, & hear his complaint against the Proprietaries of Pcnsilvania concerning Lands & transmit them to your Lordships, to be laid before his Majesty." You will see by his Letter that business is postponed, As he has taken on with the Governor & People of that Colony, to convene some of the Western Indians to a Meeting, which when ended, may be so late as to interfere with tiie Military Branch of my office this Campaign, and may somewhat hinder my bringing the Indians in general together this Summer for actual service, altho' very well inclined: Thereupon cannot help remarking to Your Lordships, " That if the Ind^ are admitted to be under a Complicate and Multifarious Influence or Management, especially at this time, it must make any application to them uncertain, the Service liable to many inconveniences, & render the Indians more difficult to treat with, while the Power ^of acting seems to be divided, and the Plan of Directing them, hot mutually concerted by me & those who affect & assume to be Supernecessary."

I must beg leave to repeat to your Lordships, the necessity there is of redressing tiic complaints of the Moliawks with r-egaid

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T sent them home leaden with the spoils of the French: and tho' 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 tlie surrender of the Fort & I had Settl'd the Garrison &<= necessary lo be li^ft in it ; I employed these Indians very successfully, in scnling them to the foreign Nations, on the over Side of the Lake, and elj^ewhere, 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.