It is the Opinion of this Board that the Present General
Assembly of this Province which stands Prorogued to the
20th day of February next do then Meet and proceed on
Business and that Notice be given accordingly
At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Saturday
the 10th day of January in the fifth year of his Lordships
Dominion Annoque Domini 1756.
Present as Yesterday
His Excellency is Pleased to lay before this Board the
following Extract
Extract from the Record of the Proceedings of the Hon-
ourable William Johnson Esqr with the Confederate Nations
of Indians at the publick Meeting at Mount Johnson in June
and July 1755.
Brother
We have taken into Our Confederacy our Children the
Schanadarighroones and they are desirous you will look upon
them as your Brethren, there are many of them who at
Present live in Maryland and want to come and live near to
Us, that both our Strength and theirs may be increased. We
have Sent for them by Belts of Wampum, but they are not
effectual, for there are three Colonels in Maryland near
whose houses they live who in conjunction with three Chief
Men amongst those Indians who will not let them Come
away. We desire you will interpose & write to those Persons
to let them come away Gave a String
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