Peters Estate and had not I thought my Proposal Equitable I never Should have made it As to the conveying Miln^ Tract to you it is at Present impracticable as no conveyance can be given untill His youngest Daughter is of Aage and if you approve of it I will Trasmitt a Copy of your Letter to Lady Warren which be Pleased to Signify to me by your next Though I Should look on your (Saying the Plain Honest Manner in Which You Represent the Affair will induce them to comply with So Reasonable a Proposal) as consenting I Should I am much Obliged to you for your assurance of endeavouring to make the Indians quiet Should they Give the Surveyor any Disturbance I imagine no Danger My Request proceeeded from a Surmise of his.

I wish you & yours the Compliments of the Season and assure you of my friendship & Regard and that I always am D^-Sir

Your most Obedient & most

To S"-. William Johnson Bar*. Humble Sev'.

at Jobnson Hall Oliver Delancey

Albany County endorsed

Decbr 25t;i 1765

Oliver DeLancey Esq" Letter.

82S MANUSCRIPTS OF

SIR W^ JOILNSON TO THE HONb^^ 0. DELANCElf.

Johnson-hall, December 23d 1765 Dear Sir

I have had the favour of your Last and sincerely thank you for the friendship you have Expressed for me, and I make no doubt of your settling the affair if impowered so to do. -- Altho' I did not write my last with a View to its going any farther, I cannot have the least objection to your communicating such part of it as you Judge necessary to the heirs of Sir Peter Warren as in my last I fairly tho' Concisely stated the Case between us, for on the one hand I should be unwilling to enlarge upon my reasonable Expectations from my deceased uncle and on the other very loth to give grounds for doubting their Good intentions with regard to my being in some measure satisfied aballance so justly due, concerning which I have not given them the Trouble of even a Letter for many Years. --