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lency & hope you will not be averse to countermanding such
Orders, otherwise I shall find myself under a necessity of
exerting the Power with which I am invested to preserve the
peace of the Province —
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[Morris to Sharpe.]
Sir
I have the pleasure to acquaint you that I have received a
letter from Scanoyady dated 4th January at Onondago an
Indian Town situate on the head Branches of the Sasquehannah
in which he informs me that he & Montour were got safe
there, tho not without abundance of Danger. That the Dela-
wares were obstinately bent on the distruction of the English
& say they will pay no regard to the Interposition of the six
Nations tho they should send to them their greatest Sachems.
He advices me to put the Province into a Posture of Defence
but not to Act offensively till I should hear further from him
& be made acquainted with the Determination of the six
nations, who he hears were convend by Colll Johnson & that
he propos'd to be at the General Convention & there represent
the conduct of the Delawares & Shawonese; & he hopes with
success, as he heard that the six Nations disapproved of their
Hostilities & would resent it. By this Journy he and Mr Mon-
tour have demonstrated that they are our true friends and as
such will deserve our best encouragements. Mr Clause, a
young man who has for sometime past liv'd in the upper
Mohock Castle, and is said to understand the Indian Language,
attends the Treaty (which was appointed to be on the 22d of
Ianuary & I hope is now holding at Colll Johnsons) on the part of
Pennsylvania & will hasten to this City as soon as it shall be
ended, and as soon as I know the result I will impart it to you.
Two of the Neutrals, one imported at New York and the
other here, have obtaind my Leave to go to Annapolis in
quest of their Families who they think are in some of the
Ships which have arrivd in your Province. If they light of
them, or any other of the wives & children belonging to those
imported here, I desire the favour of you to suffer as many to
come to their Friends here as these two will undertake to con-
duct and defray the charges of their Journy. I do not mean to
put you or my self to any Expence for their removal, But if
Ioseph Munier & Simon Leblanc who are recommended to me
as good and worthy People and one of whom had been in the
service of his Majesty will bring any here at their own Expence
I desire they may be indulgd to do it. I am Sir
Your most faithfull
and most obedt
Humble Servt
Philada 2d Robt H. Morris
Febry 1756
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