We would then beg of you to enquire of the Governor, who no doubt is acquainted with every thing relative to that affair, as it was transacted in his presence. Ended.

Sir William told them that he was an entire Stranger to the cause of such a division as was now proposed to be made of the Land they mentioned, but would at their request transmit what they now had said on the Subject, to the Governor, whose answer he would communicate to them on receipt thereof.

Johnson Hall the 9**^ day A true Copy Exam^ of April 1767.

by G Johnson

Dep. Agt acts as Secy.

SIR WM. JOHNSON TO GEN'L GAGE.

Johnson Hall April 18th. 1767.

Dear Sir

Before the receipt of your favour of the 5^^. insf^. I had received an acct. of the Murder of the Traders by the Cherokeesj they have neither plundered or Scalped them which shows that it has been done by way of retahation, -- Tis certain they have exceeded the number of those who were killed by the white people, but they never act on equal principles on such occasions, and it was of this I have been all along so apprehensive, for as the Life of an Individual is of much more consequence to them than those of Ten in our Estimation, their thirst for Revenge is without bounds, Nor can I well see how satisfaction can be easily obtained from them. A Gen^. War has taken its rise from a smaller Cause, for they imagining that War is intended & being once entred seldom recede, and the Lawless persons who have been the Authors of it