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other Provinces We have wrote to the Governors of Virginia,
Pensilvania Maryland New Hampshire Massachusetts Bay
and New Jersey desiring them to represent to their Respective
Assemblies the Utility and Necessity of this Measure and to
Urge them to make Proper Provision for it and therefore it
will be necessary that when you have Settled the time and
Place of Meeting you should give them Early Notice of it
and this Leads to recommend one thing more to your Atten-
tion and that is to take care that all the Provinces be (if
practicable) comprized in one General Treaty to be made in
his Majestys Name it appearing to us that the Practice of
each Province making a Separate Treaty for its self in its
own Name is very improper and may be attended great In-
convenience to his Majestys Service

New York 11^th December 1753
Sir
On Friday last t received the Inclosed Letter (with others
to the Governors of Virginia Pensilvania New Jerseys New
Hampshire and the Massachusets Bay) from the Lords Com-
missioners for Trade & the Plantations to be forwarded as
Addressed, and as they are referred to in their Lordships
Letter to me I inclose you an Extract of it in pursuance of
which I proposed an interview with the Indians at Albany on
the 13^th or 14^th day of next June, The Assembly here this day
Resolved that they will make Provision for the presents
usually given on such Occasions and for the Expence of my
Voyage, so that I intend to meet the Indians at the time and
place abovementioned, the Assembly have also Resolved
(upon my laying before them the Letter from the Earle of
Holdernesse one of his Majestys principal Secretarys of
State) that they will make a Suitable Provision for assisting
any of the Neighbouring Colonies to Repell force by force in
case they be invaded in an Hostile Manner by any Armed
Force whatsoever, I Send you the Extract of a Letter from
the Commanding Officer of Oswego by which it appears if
the information be true that the designs of the French on the
Ohio have proved abortive. I am S^r
Your Most Obedient & most humble Servant
James De Leney
The Honourable Horatio Sharpe
Governor of Maryland

Boston November 26^th 1753.
Sir
I received by the last post a Letter from the Earle of
Holdernesse dated 28 August past (a Circular one as it ap-

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