Answer the importance of the Object, but the Expence necessary for the Execution of a proper plan and the differing sentiments & Interests of Colonies will I fear render it of little use.

At your Leisure 1 shall be very happy to hear from you on these Subjects and remain with great truth & Affection

Dear Sir,

The Honble Lieut Gov". Golden. &ca.

THE SAME TO WW HILLSBOROUGH.

Johnson hall, Feby 10th lT70.

My Lord

In my last of 26th August (N" 11) I gave your Lordship an account of my Journey thro' the Gountry of the Six Nations to Seneca, with my proceedings at Sundry Gonferences with the Indians, & acquainted you that Deputies were arrived from the Gherokees to request a meeting, Avith the Six Nations & Canada Gonfederacys at Onondaga, which has since taken place, agreable to their desire, the result of which I waited for, as Judging it might be necessary for his Majestys Information. At this Congress the Gherokees Spoke on 20 belts to the Six Nations to renew & Strengthen the late Treaty of peace entered into between them and earnestly to request that in Consequence thereof the Six Nations should unite their Arms with them in order to attack sev' of the Southern and Western Nations who had acted as Enemys to both, after some time spent in deliberation, the Six Nations returned for Answer, That before they co^ come to any resolution agreable to their former engagements they must first Gonferr with me on the Subject, to which end they would take care of their Calumets & belts, & Send Deputys to me to desire a General Congress in my presence, & accordingly their Deputies have since come here with some of the Gherokees, earnestly requesting on the part of the Whole that I would as speedily as possible Assemble the Whole Confederacy, and after hearing what they had to say give them My advice and opinion on the subject, to Support their request, they observed that we were as much Interested as themselves in the matter having suffered repeated Insults from these people, as they Instanced in Mr Croghans being attacked & made prisoner by them on his way to Ilinois, & in their