THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Johnson-hall Aug. 6th. 1767. Dear Sir

I have had tlie pleasure of your Letters of the 12th & 20 ult", and am much obliged to you for the kind concern you Express for L*. Johnsons misfortune, he offers his best respects to you, & notwithstanding his Second Accident so soon after the former is now in a very fair way of recovery. Capt Claus is Quite Well & sets off tomorrow for Canada.

I sent imediately to the Oneidas to speak with them concerning L*^ Gallands information and shall in a day or two endeavor to Settle the point with them, I know their Jealousy of Settlements so well that I hope any dwellers there, (as I hear there are some) will be very circmnspect, and cautious of inflaming it.

As I wrote you before concerning the Indians who were sent down, charged with the Murder near Detroit & have now the fav^ of y'^ Sentim* which are entirely Correspond* with my own need only add that on their Arrival here I Judged it best to secure them at Albany for a few days and shall now send for them and make the restoring them to their people as meritorious an act on our sYde as possible & Give Mr. Hay instruct^s how to act on their Arrival at Detroit which is all can be done at present, Indeed I have since reC^ Sundry particulars from persons there sufficient to invalidate the charge brought against them, and that notwithstanding the Seeming indiference of their Chiefs both they and their neighbors are greatly incensed inasmuch as they have lost so many of their people without obtaining satisfaction particularly One killed by a Battoeman at Detroit near the Fort 2 years ago & the 2 Squaws by the Negro Since These Circumstances as well as the encroachments and murders committed by the Virginians &c occasion much discontent, & are often heard by Traders & others to whom the Indians are more communicative than to the Officers, for before the Latter they are generally shy of expressing their Sentiments.