Exert themselves with more Vigor and be better Assisted than in the late War -- As he well understood their Language, & that they had for a Long time expected he would never Leave them he had an opportunity of hearing their Real sentiments, & observes that the Prini cause of their dissaffection is owing to the French Traders & others amongst them who fill their minds with the strongest prejudices Am^* others that the mbrtality in 1757. was owing to our hav? poisoned the Rum, & that Disorder since was occasioned by sending the Small pox amongst them, That they were well pleased on hearing w' I had said at Ontario last year but that the French assured them it was false and only calculated to amuse them, the better to destroy them hereafter, & that they are daily abused with the grossest misrepresentations of us by the Canadians, the French in their Neighborhood, and those from Mississippi &c.

I Expect that Mr. Croghans Acco^ will be the last to Such an Ammo* under the present State of Affairs, as to Mr. Coles it is really considerable, & I dont know Justly what to say to it till we hear farther -- the Conduct of the Virginians, & the desire to win the Indians over may have contributed to them, but I hope we shall hear something more fully on that head.

Enclosed you have an Ace* of the expences since March last, I should not have troubled you with this until 7^^ were it not for the Several Drafts drawn upon me by Commissi y Hay for his pay, & that of the Interpfs. Smith &ca till March last, which I did not receive time enough to include in my last ace", also Two Acc*^. from Major Rogers one of the L*.