I have received your Lordships Letter of the l8th of October 1771, & have laid it before the King, & have only to add, tliat it will be very agreeable to me if your Lordships choice of M'. Cunningham to be Commissary for Indian AtTairs in Nova Scotia shall be confirmed by Sir William Johnson, within whose Department it lyes to appoint to that office. I am

My Lord

Your Lordships Most obedient Humble Servant Lord William Campbell. Hillsborough.

SIR W^ JOHNSON TO LORD HILLSBOROUGH.

Johnson hall April 4th. 1772 -

My Lord,

I was lately honored with your Lordships Letter N'^. 17. in answer to mine N". 16. since which I took the Liberty of addressing you by a few lines on a more private Subject ; From tliat time I waited with much Impatience for the return of Tho^ King the Ind^ Chief, who with others went as Depy^ to the great Congress at Scioto, as I mentioned in my last Letter, but in October to my great Concern I received the disagreable news that Thos King died at Charles- Town S. Carolina after having discharged the Embassy committed to him This I considered as I still do, as a sensible disappointment because the fidelity of that Chief, Joyned to his Superior Capacity gave me good hopes of receiving a Circumstantial Accot of all Matters at his return, which I could not Expect so perfect from the rest of his party ; -- After waiting Some Months More, I found that his party who had taken shipping at Chas Town were Landed at Philadelphia, and in Feby the Greatest part of them with many others came to my House, here I found that Anawaske, the Next in Authority to Tho^ King had died on shipboard and that another was so Afflicted with a