Your Most Obedient Humble Servant Sir William Johnson Bar*. Hillsborough.

SECY. POWNALL TO SIR W^. JOHNSON.

Whitehall 13th. October 1768.

Sir,

Your dispatch to the Earl of Hillsborough numbered 3, was received at this Office yesterday, and immediately communicated by express to his Lordship who is in the country at some distance.

I have his Lordship's directions to acquaint you that it will be impossible for him to write to you upon the subject of this dispatch

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before the departure of the Packet for this Month which has been already detained beyond the time ; but that he will take the first opportunity of laying it before the King & transmitting to you such commands as he may receive from His Majesty thereupon. I am with great Regard Sir,

Your most obed'

humble servant Sir William Johnson. John Pownall.

SIR WM. JOHNSON TO LORD HILLSBOROUGH.

Fort Stanwix October 23d, 1768.

My Lord

I was in hopes that about this time I should have been enabled to transmit your Lordship the agreable account of my having setled the boundary Line between Us and the Indians, but a train of unforeseen Accidents, together with a Variety of Obstructions given to it by the Spaniards and French at the Misisipi, and others Lurking amongst the Indians have, as yet, denyed me that pleasure, and rendered it a matter of difficulty sufficient to deterr many from the prosecution of it.

Not Expecting to have been detained here so long, or to have occasion to write to your Lordship before my return I have neither your Letters, nor my own at this place, but I recollect that my long letter N°. 2 was the 20th, July and that I since wrote your Lordship about the beginning of last month.