Jn consequence of some Letters that passed betwixt Sir William Johnson & the Revd Dr Smith of Philad# I wrote the Society in January last for leave to Remove to Schenectady, & accordingly obtained their Consent Summer last: But hearing nothing in the Interim from the People as I expected from what Dt Smith wrote Sr William when I applied the Society, I was obliged to drop all farther thoughts of that Mission, & Signified to the Society in September last, that, as matters thus stood, they shoud not postpone the Settlement of iton my account. And since then I have entered into a married State, which woud make a Removal so far as to Schenectady very inconvenient, & the Salary there wou'd be very unequal to the Expence of supporting a Family : However Tam much indebted you for your kind Invitation, & sincerely

THE SIX NATIONS, 407

wish you may be soon provided in a Worthy Missionary, & am with all Gratitude & Esteem Sir Your most obliged and very Affectionate Friend & Servt Auex®? Murray.

PASS TO MESSRS DANFORTH & WILLARD,

Ol CAMBRIDGE TO OBSERVE THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.

By His Excellency The Honorable Thomas Gage, General and Commander in Chief of all His Majesty's Forces in North America, &ca, &ca, &ca,

To the officers Commanding at Fort Ontario, Niagara, Fort Brie, Detroit & Missilimakinak.

Wuerras, Mess's Danforth and Willard, Professors of the Mathematicks, are going to observe the transit of Venus in Lake Superior ; The officers commanding as abovementioned at and on the Communication to Missilimakinak, are required to treat them with all such Convenience as their respective Posts will afford, and to give all such aid and assistance, as may be in their Power to forward the abovementioned Gentlemen, their Attendance &ca with Dispatch from Post to Post to the Place of their Destination: And should any of the Vessels be out or not in readiness to progeed, upon their arrival at any of the Posts, they are immediately to be accommodated with Boats and proper Crews to row them across the Lake where this shall happen.