I am with the utmost respect. My Lord &*=. The Rt. Honbie the Earl of Hillsborough.

Endorsed

June 24ti» 1769

To the Earl of Hillsborough.

Your Lordships last letter acquainting me that my proceed^, were still before the Lor^^ of Trade^ is just come to ha«d.

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 943

THE SAME TO THE SAME.

Johnson Hall Augt 20th 1769

My Lord,

On my way from the Country of the Senecas, whither in my Letter of the 24*1^ June (N" 9) I informed your Lordship I was then destined, I had the honour to receive your Lordship's of the 13^1' May (N" 10) and I herewith inclose a seperate Letter on the Issue of my Journey and proceedings, humbly requesting that your Lordship will so far indulge me as to allow the Subject of this to be a farther Explanation of the Transactions at the Fort Stanwix Treaty which from what I have heard seems necessary for the Justification of my Conduct, I even persuade myself that under these Circumstances Your Lordship will rather approve than condemn me for endeavoring (as every Man of Honour and Integrity ought^ to remove any the least misinformation on that head and to set the whole in as clear a light as the bounds of a Letter will admit of; and I have some hopes that in so doing your Lordship will be still farther enabled to judge of the propriety of future measures respecting the Objects of that Treaty ; and tho' I may be obliged in some places to Extract the substance of former Letters, yet I hope the placing the whole in one View will attone for it.