PAPERS RELATING TO THE SIX NATIONS.
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your Country rather than on the English ground and upon a Representation made lierof to theHon'e & Respectable Board of Trust in Great Britain They shall think it more expedient & betterUpon all views & considerations to set it in your Country rather than on the English Ground.
Your answer to the above Proposil is lesird By Jacob W s Johnson Minister of Christ & Mis-sionary to the Onoida Indians & others.
CONCERNING THE INDIAN PRAYER BOOK.
Sir Your favour of the 12th ultimo from Fort Stamvix, is now before, which I should haveanswered much Sooner, had I not well known you were deeply ingaged in Business of greaterconsequence to your Country, and I rejoice to hear you have so happily succeeded in t 1 e same.
I expect to have the Prayer Book finished by Christmas , but as it will make several sheets more
than was at first imagined, I am confident the Binders will expect 2s. instead of Is 6 for the plain
Ones Please to let me know how many you’ll want in Morroco Leather. I heard the Revd M rOgilsby say, he should have Occasion for a few neatly bound.
With Regard to the Price of the Printing I will only say this, that when the Bargain M r Weymanmade, is completed, the Printer will have but very little for his Trouble, and that there would bea much greater Benefitt resulting from English at half the Price . However I want no more thanW T hat is reasonable which I am very certain you will allow me.
The Difference to me in an Impression of a 1000 or 400, with Regard to the Labour, w'ould nothave been £5 and should have been no more to you than that of the Paper, but now that is too lateto be thought of.
I have sent to Boston for a set of Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts-Bay, and there is nota gilt 4to Bible in this City to be sold, but I shall endeavor to get you one by the Spring, if I shouldrun it by way of Falmouth, as we have all agreed not to send for any Goods this Winter.
19,1768.
P. S. If any of the Common Prayers are to be sent to London , if they are sent in sheets in myOpinion it may do, as they can be bound there to satisfaction.
SIR W. JOHNSON TO GENL GAGE
TOUCHING THE INTRIGUES OF THE N. E. MISSIONARIES AT THE TREATY AT FORT STANWIX.
Johnson hall, Nov r 24 th 1768.
Dear Sir, I have now the pleasure to enclose you a Copy of the Indian Deed of Cession to his
Majesty specifying the Boundary as also Extracts of the most material parts of the Transactions at
the late Treaty. The Indians insisted on their Title to the Lands as far as the Cherokee River,which they Cede to the King and I v T as contented to admit it in the Deed & Transactions, notwith-standing any pretended Claim of the Cherokees , because it puts an End to the Claim of the North-ern Indians, and leaves it only to be settled by the Cherokees shod the latter appear to have any
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