On the receipt of your Letter you hon' me with dated 24th October, we immediately wrote to Mt Murrey but have not yet recd an answer we could not go on at that time with Ceiling the Church as there was not one Plaisterer in Town, so concluded to stay till the Spring when Mauffet as Promised to do it, we shall give Mr Sutton the offer of the Joiners work as any recommendation from your Hont Ought and shall always be an agreeable command with us. but the way M* Davies and he proposes will Vastly exceed what we can pretend too, itgave me real concern that Mr Peters had left this place before we knew it which was owing to M' Clinch forgetfulness as he promised to acquaint me with his arival here as we intended to have return'd

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him our gratefull thanks. I have talked with Collins very plain about the money which he collected for the use, of the Church at Fort Stanwix but he declares it is not more than twenty nine Shillings but if so he surely ought to have Acquainted your honour there with I am with the Most Dutifull respect Sir your Most Humbl Servant J W. Brown. To the Honorable Sir William Johnson.

SIR WM. JOHNSON TO GENL GAGES

Johnson hall Dect 10th 1768. Dear Sir

I wrote you yesterday by Major Gorham,.This Letter is addressed to you at the intreaty of the Bearer M: Adair, who I am informed was for many years a Trader of first consequence amongst the Cherokees &c. I believe his present Circumstances are very indifferent but he conceives he has a prospeét of some advantage in view from the Publication of a manuscript he has wrote on the Manners, Customs & History of the Southern Indians, tending to prove their descent from the Hebrews, which performance shews him a man well acquainted with the Languages, and very Curious in his Remarks, His design is to go for England and (if he may be allowed) to take some Chicksaws with him, & as none of that Nation were ever there he conceives it would be for the public advantage to Shew them the greatness and power of the English.