Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772

VII. "As to increasing the settlements to respectable provinces, and to colonization _in general terms_ in the _remote_ countries, I conceive it altogether inconsistent with sou...

"The last but the most important affair I have at this time to mention, is with regard to the _settling a boundary between you and the English_. I sent a message to some of your...

Having, we presume, clearly shewn, that the country _southward_ of the Great Kenhawa, quite to the Cherokee river, belonged to the Six Nations, and _not_ to the Cherokees;--that...

Pursuant to your lordships order of the 25th May 1770, we have taken into our consideration the humble memorial of the honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent...

That General Braddock and the American Governors, were _not_ singular in their opinion, as to the right of the Six Nations to the land _over_ the Allegany mountains, and on both...

Whether Nova Scotia, and East and West Florida have yielded advantages and returns equal to the enormous sums expended in founding and supporting them, or even advantages, such...

And whereas it is _just_ and _reasonable_, and _essential to our interest_, and the security of our colonies, that the several nations or tribes of Indians, with whom we are con...