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His Honour put the Question, Whether the Board would Accept of this Report. And it passed inthe Affirmative.
Certain proposals from William Johnson Esq r relative to the Six Nations and for defeating the Designsof the French ; Also Certain Considerations oflerred by Thomas Pownall Esq r towards a General Planof the Measures of the English provinces were read at the Board.
It was thereupon Voted that M r Franklin be desired to give the thanks of this Board to the saidM r Johnson and M r Pownall and desire them to Suffer Copies of said Papers to be taken by theCommissioners of each Colony for the Consideration of their Respective Governments.
Ordered
That all his Majesties Governments on this Continent may have Liberty from time to timeto take Copies of the Proceedings of this Congress or any parts thereof paying for the same, and thatno Other Copies be delivered by the Secretary.
Ordered
That upon the Secretarys leaving this Province, The Records of these proceedings of the Com-missioners of the Several Governments be lodged in the Secretarys Office in the Province of New York .
M r Chambers and M r Peters Reported
That they had Examined these Minutes of the Proceedings of this Congress, and find them right
And then His Honour the Lieu 4 Governor of New York and the Commissioners of the SeveralGovernments rose without any further Adjournment.
New York 21 Sep r 1754—A true Copy of the Proceedingsof the Congress held at Albany in the Months of June & July.
Compared & Examined by me Peter Wraxall Secret
CORRESPONDENCE, &c.
The Examination of Coll 0 . William Johnson taken before, a Committee of his Majesty’sCouncil for the Province of NewYork at the City of New York the third day ofOctober 1747.
The Examinate Says, He is of Opinion, That some Person who has Influence over the Indians,should be sent to Oswego, and intrusted with presents to be distributed among some of the SixNations, and the Far Indians, In order to preserve them in their present good Disposition.
That when he first engaged in the Management of the Indian affairs, Their Sachims were chieflyin the French Interest, and had actually received Belts of Wampum from the French , Which theyhave since given up, and in lieu of those Belts have accepted of others from this Government. Thatif some proper Measures be not taken to Secure and preserve them in their present good disposition,he is of opinion It may greatly discourage them, as they have met with so many Disappointments bythe Expedition not being carried into Execution.
That the Six Nations have been retained from Hunting this Summer by his Excellency the Gover-nour, that they might be ready to Act as Occasion should require, and are now by that means inwant of many Necessarys both for themselves and their Families, For which they would apply to him,as he has hitherto Supplyed them therewith: That he has not any Goods at this Time for that purpose,and thinks if they are not supplyed with such Necessarys as they may want, He will be obliged toleave his Settlement in the Mohocks Country, which he believes fiom what he has heard theInhabitants there say, would occasion them all to abandon their Settlements.