Letter from Viscount Hillsborough, London to Sir William Johnson, 1763 September 30th : manuscript signed.

Concerning the hostilities with the Native American populations; saying "We have received your Letter to us of the 1st of July last containing a very melancholy Representation of the Calamities to which His Majesty's Subjects in the interior Parts of His American Dominions are exposed by the savage Hostilities of the Indians, in the Consideration of which We have little other immediate Hope of Comfort than what arises from our reliance upon your Ability & activity and the Influence you have so deservedly obtained amongst the Confederate Nations, and which you have at all times exerted with so much Zeal and Success. We do entirely agree with you in Opinion as to the Causes of this unhappy Defection of the Indians, and are convinced that nothing but the speedy Establishment of some well digested general Plan for the Regulation of our Commercial & political Concerns with them can effectually reconcile their Esteem and Affections. His Majesty's Ministers are entirely of the same Opinion and We have accordingly received His Majesty's Commands to consider of such a Plan, in which Business We shall lose no Time, and shall not fail to attend to the several Points which you recommend in your Letter, hoping to receive from you such further lights and Information as may enable us fully to obey His Majesty's Commands and answer the Royal Intentions in the great and important Object he has in view."