You may recollect that I formerly wrote to you concerning Milns Patent of 500 acres adjoyniflg my Estate, when you was so kind as to say that you would then Lease it till S"^ Pef Warrens Children were of age, and afterwards befriend me in case I became a purchaser. -- As they are now of Age, I would willingly buy that Tract, because tho' of little consequence in itself it in some measure interferes with the Lots of two of my Tenants, and is so situated as to be of more value to me than to any body else, As I presume it will be sold, I know you can settle this matter for me, & I dare say will do it as a friend.

I have nothing material to add from this Quarter at present but with my sincerest wishes for your health and happiness I remain always Dear Sir

Your affectionate

and very humble serv*.

The Honble

Oliver DeLancey Esq^

LORD HILLSBOROUGH TO SIR W^. JOHNSON.

Duplicate. Whitehall, 9th. Deer. 1769.

Sir,

Mr. Povvnall having acquainted you in his Letter of the 6*h. of September, that your dispatch N°. 9 had been received and laid before the King ; I am now to acknowledge the having since received your Letters N*. 10, & 11, which having been read by the King, His Majesty was graciously pleased to express, that he had no doubt of the uprightness of your intentions in the execution of the Instructions relative to the Boundary Line, and in giving W'ay to the motives which you say induced you to deviate from those Instructions ; I have therefore only to add upon this subject that since you have thought fit not to mention to the Indians His Majesty's wish to decline the Cession of the Lands below the Kanawa, it is His Majesty's pleasure that you should declare the Royal Ratification of the Treaty at Fort Stanwix in such manner