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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SIX NATIONS.
HUGH GAINE TO SIR WM. JOHNSON.
Sir At last I have been able to send you the Remainder of the Common Prayer. I am sorrythey have been delayed so iong, but I assure you it was not in my Power to send them sooner, theDelay being occasioned by the want of Morroca Leather
Inclosed you have your own Account, as also the whole Expence of the Common Prayers,binding, Paper, &c. which I hope you’ll think reasonable. Had it been English , the Printing Workcould not have been done cheaper. I have not charged you with the News-Paper , as I am at aloss to know when you began, but I imagine ’tis not less than 10 years This, Perhaps you canremember yourself, as the same is quite unknown to
Sir Your humble Servant
August 31, 1769. )
JAMES ADAIR ESQ. TO SIR W“ JOHNSON.
Hon b! ’ Sire. As y r kindly temper and public spirit invited me to write to you, (exactly after y«manner Sir Henry Moore did, with regard to myself) in what manner you could be of any serviceto me, at London , I make free to inform you, that, next April, I set off from this metropolis ofGeorgia-Colony, to London , in order to get my Indian Productions published, there, under y r auspi-cious patronage; And, as you firmly believ’d, according to my creed, that general Licences areutterly destructive to y e Indian trade, and our barrier settlements and Colonies , by allowing suchprodgious nubers of worthless trading Pedlars, as can give security for conforming to y e rulesof trade, both to overstock it, corrupt y e Indians by trusting them twice more than they can pay :then perpexing them for y® effect of their own indiscretion, and betraying y e Secrets of Government,& c &° I’m hopeful you’ll recommend, in concert with Govern 1- Wright & Lieu 1 Govern 1- Bull, toy® Lords of trade, if it lyes in their sphere of action, a total abrogation of that most perniciouscustom of granting Licences ; Without which, ’tis y e universal opinion of all us, who have gain’dsufficient skill in Indian affairs, that, when the Creeks have made peace with ye Chocktali nation,,they’ll fall on our valuable weak Colony of Georgia , as they despise us like tame helpless dung-hill fowls, and, in their usual set speeches, and bacchanal days, term us so, by having been passivelyallowed, for these nine years past, to shed under y e greatest security, a torrent of y® innocent cryingblood of valuable british Subjects, to y c shame and discredit of every tie of social union.
If, along with y e former, y r own kindly temper & love of v® public good should incite you towrite any thing, in my behalf, to my Lord Hillsborough or y e Lords of trade and remit it to medirected either to y e care of James Parsons Esq r Attorney at Law, in Charlestown or to that ofMess 1-5 Tellfair, merch ts or M r Johnson, Printer, in Savannah , I sliou’d readily receive it: And itwou’d be of great service to me ; For your interest is very great, in London .
Pm hopeful, Sir, that both you and every one of yr extensive & very respectable Family are well:and may the divine bountiful goodness, always, preserve ye, so. Be so kind as to present to eachof them, one by one, my continual sincere w'ell-wishes, and very humble respects ; and to acceptof y« same from. Hon ble Sir,
Your much obliged & very obed 1 H ble Serv 1