Rogers has Goods trading for his benefit in the Ind". Country to a very considerable amount, and the Returns may soon be in, as I am informed j for which reason I thought it best to hint, that it would not be amiss to have them secured for his Creditors. I have a Letter from Capt Spicemaker on the subject of Lt. Robert's Confinement, I hear the latter is near this place on his way down.

His Excell<=y Geni Gage.

GENL. GAGE TO SIR W^. JOHNSON.

New York Deer, 6th. 1767.

Dear Sir,

As I conceive the main objects of the present Resentment of the Indians to arise from the Insults they have received from the Frontier People of Virginia, and the Encroachments made by those People and others upon their Lands ; I have wrote in the strongest Terms to the Governors of Pensylvania and Virginia to grant Redress to the Indians upon these Points. Shewing them the conduct of their Provinces before with respect to Encroachments, for which no Justice could be obtained : which at length obliged the Indians to throw themselves into the arms of the French for Protection, and had occasioned the Hostilities commenced upon us in 1754 & 1755, and the war that followed. If their Laws were insufficient, that others should be made more efFectualy to secure the Indians in their Persons ,& Properties, and if the coercive Powers of Goyerijiment are weak, that I would assist with any force that

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. bb9