CHAPTER X.

Attends a General Convention at Albany, as a Delegate from Pennsylvania.— Proposes a Plan of Union for the Colonies, which is adopted by the Convention. Interview with Governor Shirley at Boston.→→→ Conversations with Governor Morris on Pennsylvania Affairs. Assists Mr. Quincy in procuring Aids for New England. — Visits General Braddock's Army in Maryland - Procures Horses and Wagons to facilitate the March of the Army. — Obtains Supplies for the Officers. Character of Braddock.- Account of his Defeat in the Battle of the Monongahela. — Braddock commends his Services in Letters to the Government. These Services poorly rewarded. Society for the Relief and Instruction of Germans in Pennsylvania.

IN 1754, war with France being again apprehended, a congress of commissioners from the different colonies was by an order of the Lords of Trade to be assembled at Albany; there to confer with the chiefs of the Six Nations, concerning the means of defending both their country and ours. Governor Hamilton, having received this order, acquainted the House with it, requesting they would furnish proper presents for the Indians, to be given on this occasion; and naming the Speaker (Mr. Norris) and myself to join Mr. John Penn and Mr. Secretary Peters, as commissioners to act for Pennsylvania. The House approved the nomination, and provided the goods for the presents, though they did not much like treating out of the province; and we met the other commissioners at Albany about the middle of June.

In our way thither, I projected and drew up a Plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as might be necessary for defence, and other important general purposes. As we passed through New York, I had there shown my project to Mr. James Alexander and Mr. Kennedy, two gentlemen