GUY JOHNSON TO LT GOV. GOLDEN.

[From N. Y. Col. MSS.]

Guy Park Augst 2d. 1774. Sir,

Since I had the honor of Writing to you last, I have received his Excell^y Gen^ Gages Orders Appointing me to the Superintendency of Indian affairs till his Majestys pleasure is known, concerning which he has Likewise wrote to the Secrety of State as Sir W"^ Johnson had done agreeable to the desire of the Indians sometime before his death ; --

Having been much indisposed for some days past it was not sooner in my power to write to you on a matter complained of by the Indians at the late Congress respecting the conduct of their old Antagonist Geo : Klock; It would take up too much of your time to enter at present into the relation of his repeated Offences, these were highly aggravated by the circumstance of his seducing one of their People to accompany him last Winter to England and Exhibiting him as a Show, but Lord Dartmouth having sent in quest of Klockj he returned hastily to America, & defrauded the Indian of his Money on the Passage, of this the Indian complained & went (with some others) to his House where they took part of that Cash away, and insisted on his signing a Release for part of the Laiids of their Village included in the Patent of Van Home and Livingston which all the other Proprietors had long since done, -- He at length promised to comply and appointed a time, but when their Chiefs attended for that purpose with a Justice of the Peace, they were refused admittance, & Shortly after he went to Albany from whence he transmitted an Affidavit of his Danger with a View to have the Canajoharee Indians Indicted by the C'rand jury, 'tho' Sir W»i Johnson had given them a strict Caution against offering him any Insult, promising that the Affair should