Argues that Chenussio have repented from past actions by offering up murderers and leaving their men as hostages. Says rest of the Confederacy will accompany the troops. Discussion of Niagara meeting, triggers discussion of land settlement and intention by Johnson to, himself, comply with Royal Proclamation (implies a connection between the meeting and the Proclamation).

Date of letter

Sir William Johnson to Cadwallader Colden, April 6, 1764. In “The papers of Sir William Johnson, Volume 4,” prepared for publication by the Division of Archives and History, pg 386-388. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1925. GKS ID: 58836.