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to have entered into a minute Detail of what has been agreed
upon with the Southern Indians, concerning a Boundary Line,
But as the Line settled with the Cherokees falls in with a
part of the Conohway River, Communicating with the Ohio,
it does seem to Us, that it would be unadvisable that the Line,
now proposed to be settled with the Six Nations and their
Allies, should be extended Lower down the Ohio than the
Mouth of the said Conohway River, as the carrying it further
might afford a pretence for Settlements in a Country which,
however claimed by the Six Nations as part of their Ancient
Dominion, is in fact actually Occupied by the Cherokees as
their Hunting Ground; and who would Consequently consider
such Settlements as a direct violation of what has been agreed
upon by them.
We are &c.
Clare
Soame Jenyns
Ed: Eliot
Wm Fitzherbert
Thos Robinson
At a Council held at the Council Chamber on Wednesday
the 22d day of June in the Eighteenth year of His Lordships
Dominion Anno Domini 1768.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor.
The Honble Benedict Calvert John Ridout, Walter Dulany
and John B. Bordley Esqrs
His Excellency was pleased to lay before this Board the
following Letter from the Earl of Hillsborough, together with
a Copy of a Circular Letter from the Assembly of the Massa-
chusets Bay to the Speakers of the several Assemblys on the
Continent of America.
Whitehall April 21st 1768
Sir
I have His Majesty's Commands to transmit to you the
Inclosed Copy of a Letter from the Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the Colony of Massachusets Bay, ad-
dressed by Order of that House to the Speaker of the As-
sembly of each Colony upon the Continent of North America.
As His Majesty considers this Measure to be of a danger-
ous and factious Tendency, calculated to inflame the Minds of
his good Subjects in the Colonies, to promote an unwar-
rantable Combination, and to excite and encourage an open
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