May it please your Excellency

As you have been pleas'd to lay before us in your message [to] The Grand plan of the French (as Mention'd in your Speech) to Ruin and distress all the Brittish Colony's On the Continent in such Judicious and Strong terms. We are under the Necessity of Addressing your Excellency On that Head.

We were fully Sensible of the Encroachments Of the French and the Methods they had taken to gain Over several of our Friendly Indian Nations by whose Connivence and assistence they had Built Forts within The Government of Virginia on The River Ohio, from Whence they had in Conjunction with the Indians made Excursions on the Inhabitants of the back Country pillaging And Massacring without distinction of age or Sex all That came in their way, and all this open Violation of the Solemn treaties subsisting between the two Nations. Wherefore at our last meeting, we Joyn'd the other House in granting to his Majesty such an Aid As exceeded that of any of any of the Other Colonies (Although They were Either of them far more oppulent and more Exposed than us) and in which we hop'd we shou'd have Been follow'd by our Neighbours. But their Indolence was Such that for want of exerting themselves, the French defeated the Virginia Forces and thereby became quiet possessors Of their unjust pretensions, and of course firmly Attatch'd The Indians to their Party. From when it is plain we Are open and exposed to the ravages of a Cruel and Merciless Enemy who threatens nothing less than the depriving us of our Liberties, and properties, as well as of the free excercise of our Religion, as this sir is our true state on the Continent we Hope it will Cause the Breast of every true Lover of his Country to glow with a Just Indignation, and Resentment, and rouze the other Colonies out of their stupid Lethargy, And in order to Stirr them up, To assert his Majesty's Just Rights, and to preserve to our Posterity the Invaluable prevaliges we have long enjoy'd, we shall in Conjunction with the Other House grant to his Majesty such a further Aid, as the Indigency of the Province will permit that your Excellency May be enabled to send a Body of men to Join the Forces Intended to dispossess the French, And shou'd not this be Sufficient to spirit up our Neighbours, yet we shall have The Satisfaction of reflecting that no blame can lye at our Door, and that we have with Alacrity and Unanimity discharg'd the Duty we owe to the best of Kings and to our Country—

Matt: Rowan P.C.

North Carolina.
Copy of the Address of the Council of No. Carolina, to Govr. Dobbs, upon his Message to them.

Recd. with his Letter dated the 4th. Janry. 1755.

Recd. July the 2d.
Read ——3d. 1755.

C.79.I.