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17,141 letters[Williamsburg, 8–11 November 1755] At a Committee held pursuant to an Act of Assembly Intituled –An Act, For raising the Sum of Forty Thousand Pounds for the protection of his…
[Williamsburg, 8 November 1755] To Captain John Savage. You will receive by Colonel Eyre £45 for Recruiting; 1 and you are allowed a further day, until the 25th of December,…
[Williamsburg, 8 November 1755] To Ensigns Dangerfield and Dean. You are hereby Ordered to continue Recruiting until the 20th December next; at which time you are peremptorily ordered to Rendezvous,…
Winchester Novr 7th 1755 Sir, Last night the Detachmt marchd with only Eight waggons at last; 1 There is no more Salt here, of which I have acquainted Mr Dick,…
Winchester 6 9ber [November] 1755 Sir, There is nothing that I can inform you of for Certain. There is a very good Spirit, in the back Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, but…
Philadelphia Novr 3d 1755 Dear Washington Yours of the 17th Octr from Winchester I receivd from Gist, when I was down at Newcastle with Governor Morris. 1 I own, I…
Fort Dinwiddie 3d Novemr 1755 Sir Inclosed you have the Return for Last Month 1 I have been Oblidged to Inclose the Weekly Returns to the other field Officers as…
Executive Mansion, Washington, August 17, 1864. Lieutenant General Grant. I have seen your despatch expressing your wish that all competition for negro laborers might be suppressed. I do not wish…
Philadelphia Novr 1st 1755 My Dear Friend I have taken all the pains in My Power to find the true Intents of the Indians. Monnacatootha is return–d from the Six…
[1 November 1755] To Commissary Jones–or to George Conway. You are hereby Ordered to deliver to Sergeant Wilper (taking his receipt for the same) for the use of Captain Hoggs…
[1 November 1755] To Mr Boyd, Paymaster. As Colonel Stephen has brought £1000 which I wrote for to pay off the Troops, it will save you a journey to Williamsburg…
[Fredericksburg, 1 November 1755] To Captain John Mercer, of the Virginia Regiment. You are hereby ordered to Rendezvous at Alexandria the first Day of December, with all the men you…
[31 October–1 November, 1755] Sir Good Intelligences being of the utmost Consequences at this Juncture, and Mr Gist knowing more of Indians and of the Nature of the Country than…
[31 October 1755] To Captain Robert Spotswood, of the Virginia Regiment. You are hereby ordered, as soon as the Clothes and Arms arrive to furnish all the men who now…
[Winchester, 30 October 1755] To Sergeant David Wilper, of the Virginia Regiment. You are hereby ordered, so soon as the Waggon arrives from the Fort, and you have got those…
[Winchester, 29 October 1755] To Mr Commissary Dick You are, so soon as you arrive here, to give such directions as you shall see necessary about driving the Cattle to…
[Winchester, 29 October 1755] To Lieutenant Colonel Adam Stephen, of the Virginia Regiment. You are hereby ordered, so soon as the Waggons arrive from Alexandria and Fort Cumberland, with Clothing…
[Winchester, 28 October 1755] To Lieutenant Bacon, of the Maryland Independant Company. Sir, As those Stockades on Pattersons Creek, are only intended by way of cover to the Rangers, and…
[Winchester, 28 October 1755] To Captain Peter Hogg, of the Virginia Regiment. Sir, I received yours of the 6th of October, inclosing the Returns of your Company, only this day.…
[Winchester, 28 October 1755] To Captain Bell, of the Virginia Regiment. I have Ordered Ensign Fleming to Repair to Captain Hoggs Company with eight good men; which I expect you…