The Greatest Grievances with regard to Lands are the Kayaderosseras patent & the Grant of the Lower Mohock Flatts to y-' corporation of Albany the several Intrusions made & threatened to be made in almost every Quarter to the Southward occasions likewise a Gen^ discontent. on all these points they w.ere assured of Speedy and Effectual redress, which they have in Vain Expected these four years. The large patent before mentioned is circumstanced exactly as you VOL. II. 56

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describe, nor can anything be Expected to be done in their favor here therein or indeed in anything else, for the judicious reasons you assign. The Indians proposed frequently that We should not Exceed Certain Limits in our purcliases &ca and the Govt \vas so Sensible of this that the Establishment of a Certain boundary Line between each of the Colonies throughout the vehole Continent and the Indian Nations was made an Article of the plan. This is the boundy, I have so oiten spoke of, not that between Pensilvania & Maryland which is a private affair, & Concerning this Gen', Boundary (agreeable to my Orders) I conferred with the Whole Confederacy & Assured them that it would forthwith be settled, and Lines determined on, beyond which no purchases whatsoever should be attempted As nothing appeared better calculated for preventing farther disputes than the redress of present Grievances, and the fixing such a boundary as would prevent future encroachments to which end the Ind^. proposed to Cede Lands to most of the Colonies they have expected it with impatience for a considerable time, & finding themselves disappointed therein, & on every ther head they suspect that it was done to lull them into a State of security & cannot be persuaded out of the opinion, that we have hostile designs which we are about to put into Execut".