Should the Indians give any disturbance to the Surveyor I shall wuth pleasure use all my Endeavors to accomodate the matter, & make them easy, and I hope by next post to be able to send you the Leases &a with such information as you require

I ?hall push the affair you wrote upon to M^s Cosby, & shall do all in my power to obtain that Tract for you, or to serve you in any other shape in ray power, and you may be assured that I am.

The Honble 01. DeLancey Esq^

HON. OL DELANCEY TO SIR W^. JOHNSON.

New York ye 25 Deem. 1765.

Dear Sir

I reed your favour of y^ 7**1 Nov' Last which I Should have ans*^ much Sooner but the Turbulent Situation of Affairs here has

SIR AVILLIAM JOHNSON. 827

prevented me from doing almost every kind of Bussiness No more than you, can I account for the Delays of Letters Mine are frequently Detained and Sometimes Come readyopen'dloMy hand.

I hope you' Soon have an Answer from Mrs. Cosby. m

Your Answer to My Proposal about your Bonds to S^. Peter Warren is now before me and I readily acknowledge the circumstances of friendship that were or ought to have been between you and what you might have reasonably expected from his Good Inclinations to you Who had Influence over him in Ireland I cant Say at the time of his Death, It could not be his Lady who was in England and was not So well considered as in his former Wills I am only an Attorney & must Act with Security and realy have it not in my Power to do more than I offered in my last to you the Alteration is wholly between you & your Relations and for me to do more would be improper I have Carefully Looked over your Account with S^".