270
letters
orders
and
instructions
october
1755
only
for
the
publick
use
unless
by
particu
lar
orders
from
me
you
are
to
send
down
a
barrel
of
flints
with
the
arms
to
winchester
and
about
two
thousand
weight
of
flour
for
the
two
companies
of
rangers
twelve
hundred
of
which
to
be
delivered
captain
ashby
and
company
at
the
plantation
of
charles
sellars
the
rest
to
captain
cockes
company
at
nicholas
reasmers
october
26
gw
28th
winchester
october
28
1755
parole
hampton
the
officers
who
came
down
from
fort
cumberland
with
colonel
washington
are
immediately
to
go
recrui
ting
and
they
are
allowed
until
the
1st
of
de
cember
at
which
time
if
they
do
not
punctually
appear
at
the
place
of
rendez
vous
assigned
them
they
will
be
tried
by
a
court
martial
for
disobedience
of
orders
they
are
to
wait
upon
the
aid
de
camp
at
one
of
the
clock
to
receive
their
recrui
ting
instructions
each
officer
present
to
give
in
a
return
immediately
of
the
number
of
men
he
has
enlisted
one
subaltern
one
sergeant
one
corporal
one
drummer
and
twenty
five
private
men
are
to
mount
guard
today
and
to
be
relieved
to
morrow
at
ten
oclock
all
reports
and
returns
are
to
be
made
to
the
aid
de
camp
letters
orders
and
instructions
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1755
271
28th
to
ensign
fleming
of
the
virginia
regiment
you
are
hereby
ordered
to
repair
to
captain
hogg
company
at
fort
dinwiddie
with
eight
good
men
as
that
company
is
without
a
surgeon
if
you
will
do
that
duty
an
allowance
will
be
made
you
for
it
you
are
to
provide
medicines
c
upon
the
best
terms
you
can
this
order
i
expect
will
be
immedi
ately
complied
with
and
that
no
delays
be
of
fered
you
are
to
account
with
captain
bell
for
your
recruiting
money
before
you
leave
him
if
you
should
arrive
at
augusta
court
house
before
sergeant
wilper
and
his
party
you
are
to
halt
there
until
he
joins
in
order
to
escort
the
ammunition
c
for
the
fort
where
you
will
receive
clothes
and
arms
for
the
men
28th
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
will
see
immedi
ately
complied
with
he
is
to
account
with
you
for
his
recruiting
money
before
he
leaves
you
you
are
hereby
ordered
peremptorily
to
be
at
this
place
with
what
men
you
have
or
can
en
list
by
the
1st
of
december
your
late
disobedi
ence
of
orders
has
greatly
displeased
me
it
is
impossible
to
carry
on
affairs
as
they
ought
to
be
when
you
pay
so
little
regard
to
the
force
of
a
military
order
you
must
be
conscious
within
yourself
or
at
least
ought
to
be
that
your
crime
is
sufficient
to
break
the
best
officer
that
ever
bore
a
commission
272
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orders
and
instructions
october
172
28th
to
captain
peter
hogg
of
the
virginia
regiment
sir
i
received
yours
of
the
6th
of
octo
ber
inclosing
the
returns
of
your
company
only
this
day
ferguson
was
sent
after
you
but
falling
ill
by
a
sore
on
his
arm
was
ordered
to
halt
here
where
he
now
remains
unfit
for
duty
therefore
i
have
sent
in
his
room
sergeant
wilper
has
received
from
fort
cumberland
and
this
place
arms
and
clothing
to
complete
your
compa
ny
to
the
establishment
he
has
enlisted
three
men
on
his
march
and
i
have
or
dered
ensign
fleming
with
eight
others
to
join
you
he
being
a
surgeon
he
is
desired
to
take
care
of
your
company
for
which
he
will
be
allowed
you
must
use
your
best
endeavours
to
secure
your
provisions
and
do
with
it
as
you
see
most
needful
it
is
impossi
ble
i
can
direct
about
it
at
this
distance
properly
as
we
have
contracted
for
a
large
quantity
of
beef
already
you
are
desired
to
engage
no
more
than
what
will
suffice
for
your
own
company
i
shall
see
that
money
is
lodged
with
mr
dick
for
your
use
when
i
see
him
you
are
to
see
the
usual
stoppages
from
the
mens
pay
while
they
are
in
the
hospital
to
answer
the
expence
of
nurses
c
you
must
be
very
careful
not
to
slip
the
opportunity
of
purchasing
grain
for
your
company
that
being
your
only
dependance
letters
orders
and
instructions
october
1755
273
for
bread
the
commissary
having
no
orders
to
make
provisions
for
you
if
any
of
your
men
should
desert
or
die
you
are
immediately
to
recruit
others
keeping
your
company
to
the
esta
blishment
28th
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
as
a
receptacle
now
and
then
for
provisions
you
are
desired
not
to
plan
any
work
which
requires
much
time
to
execute
we
have
neither
men
nor
tools
to
carry
on
the
undertaking
with
vigour
i
am
c
gw
29th
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
and
arms
to
see
the
men
completely
furnished
with
both
and
march
them
immediately
to
fort
cumberland
observing
to
take
up
all
the
salt
which
the
waggons
provided
by
the
commissary
will
carry
there
will
come
down
some
of
the
country
wag
gons
which
must
also
be
loaded
up
with
salt
as
there
is
some
clothing
wanting
to
complete
the
companies
at
fort
cumberland
you
are
to
take
up
for
that
purpose
forty
coats
thirty
nine
waistcoats
and
fifty
six
pair
of
breeches
thirty
eight
hats
and
eighty
shirts
which
you
are
to
have
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orders
and
instructions
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1755
delivered
out
to
the
companies
according
to
the
return
made
me
at
fort
cum
berland
october
26th
i
have
sent
more
suits
than
are
necessary
in
case
of
getting
a
recruit
c
you
must
do
the
best
you
can
in
lodging
the
men
as
the
barracks
in
the
fort
are
full
as
sergeant
wil
per
is
waiting
the
return
of
the
waggons
from
the
fort
for
necessaries
for
captain
hoggs
company
so
soon
as
they
arrive
you
are
to
see
that
he
receives
such
things
as
he
has
orders
for
and
dispatch
him
immediately
if
no
other
horses
belong
ing
to
the
country
can
be
had
here
one
of
the
country
teams
must
be
stopped
and
the
horses
given
to
him
you
must
engage
the
herdsmen
to
remain
with
the
cattle
until
they
hear
from
the
com
missary
or
from
me
you
must
engage
all
the
coopers
you
can
to
make
barrels
for
packing
the
beef
and
if
any
of
the
soldiers
are
coopers
they
must
be
set
im
mediately
to
work
you
are
to
receive
from
the
stores
here
thirty
pounds
of
goose
shot
which
you
will
deliver
to
captain
ashby
company
as
you
pass
by
directing
him
to
be
particularly
care
ful
of
it
if
either
of
the
captains
of
the
rangers
should
apply
to
you
for
ammu
nition
you
are
to
supply
him
from
the
fort
a
drummer
with
his
drum
is
to
be
sent
from
this
place
with
sergeant
wilper
in
the
room
of
duncan
ferguson
letters
orders
and
instructions
october
1755
275
who
is
to
go
up
to
fort
cumberland
you
are
to
see
that
the
men
of
the
virginia
regiment
are
exer
cised
as
often
every
day
as
the
duty
will
admit
and
that
they
are
practised
also
in
shooting
at
tar
gets
and
if
there
are
any
who
are
remarkably
awkward
particular
pains
must
be
taken
with
them
you
must
observe
on
your
march
good
order
and
discipline
and
see
that
no
irregu
larities
happen
and
that
the
men
are
not
allowed
to
pillage
the
country
which
was
very
much
complained
of
in
the
last
detachment
you
are
to
apply
to
major
lewis
for
the
in
structions
which
i
left
with
him
and
see
that
they
are
observed
given
under
my
hand
c
winchester
october
gw
29th
1755
29th
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
fort
cumberland
you
are
to
send
up
doctor
walker
or
go
yourself
there
to
see
them
killed
and
properly
salted
whichever
of
you
remains
here
must
purchase
such
a
quantity
of
pork
as
you
imagine
will
be
necessary
for
the
troops
upon
the
most
reasonable
terms
you
can
and
oblige
them
to
deliver
it
at
whatever
time
you
shall
judge
most
proper
you
are
to
answer
out
of
the
money
in
your
hands
whatever
draughts
captain
hogg
may
draw
on
you
for
the
subsistance
of
his
company
from
time
to
time
you
are
to
see
that
coopers
are
engaged
to
make
barrels
for
the
provisions
and
to
276
letters
orders
and
instructions
october
1755
provide
all
other
necessaries
for
the
expedition
which
you
know
will
be
wanted
as
there
are
several
contracts
made
by
me
to
have
cattle
delivered
here
c
by
the
1st
of
next
month
i
desire
that
for
such
as
you
receive
up
on
that
account
if
you
have
money
in
your
hands
you
make
immediate
payment
given
c
winchester
october
gw
29th
1755
29th
winchester
october
29th
1755
parole
williamsburgh
one
subaltern
one
sergeant
one
corporal
one
drummer
and
twenty
five
private
men
the
guard
today
captain
peachy
is
ordered
to
take
upon
him
the
command
of
the
recruits
which
arrived
here
under
lieutenant
hall
and
ensign
price
who
are
also
ordered
to
act
under
him
until
further
orders
ensign
hedgeman
and
the
recruits
which
arrived
with
him
are
ordered
to
join
lieutenant
king
and
be
under
his
command
until
further
orders
lieutenant
eustace
and
the
eight
men
with
him
are
to
join
as
soon
as
they
arrive
at
fort
cumberland
the
company
which
captain
waggener
commands
at
present
and
the
party
left
with
sergeant
shaw
is
to
re
turn
to
their
respective
companies
so
soon
as
they
reach
the
fort
the
commissary
is
to
see
that
the
magazine
is
secured
by
fastening
up
the
windows
c
better
than
they
now
are
the
officers
are
to
see
that
the
men
are
clo
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and
instructions
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1755
277
thed
tomorrow
and
to
be
very
particular
in
their
accounts
of
what
they
receive
they
will
also
receive
arms
so
soon
as
they
arrive
from
fort
cumberland
to
complete
their
recruits
they
are
to
see
that
each
man
distinguishes
his
firelock
by
some
particular
mark
which
the
sub
alterns
of
the
company
are
to
enter
in
a
book
they
are
to
keep
for
that
purpose
every
officer
is
to
provide
an
orderly
book
to
enter
the
orders
in
as
they
issue
every
day
regularly
that
they
may
examine
them
often
and
see
they
are
duly
complied
with
captain
bronaugh
lieutenant
stewart
blegg
and
williams
sent
recruiting
and
to
rendezvous
at
alexandri
a
the
1st
of
december
gw
31st
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
rendezvous
at
fredericksburgh
with
both
and
march
them
immediately
with
the
utmost
dispatch
to
fort
cumberland
to
reinforce
the
garrison
when
you
arrive
at
winchester
you
must
provide
your
men
with
car
tridges
you
are
to
be
very
careful
and
circum
spect
in
your
march
and
see
that
your
men
do
not
on
any
account
whatsoever
plunder
or
pillage
the
houses
which
the
people
have
deserted
or
any
others
or
plantations
lieutenant
fra
zier
and
ensign
carter
are
appointed
to
this
com
mand
given
c
gw
278
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orders
and
instructions
october
1755
1st
to
captain
john
mercer
of
the
virginia
regiment
you
are
hereby
ordered
to
ren
dezvous
at
alexandria
the
first
day
of
december
with
all
the
men
you
can
raise
by
that
time
given
c
at
fredericksburg
november
1st
1755
gw
aid
de
camp
nb
captain
joshua
lewis
is
allowed
to
the
1st
of
december
to
rendezvous
at
alex
andria
1st
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
williams
burg
at
this
time
but
i
think
it
absolutely
necessary
that
you
should
after
paying
the
troops
in
garrison
go
into
augusta
to
pay
off
captain
hoggs
company
which
is
now
complete
unless
you
can
send
the
money
by
mr
mcclenachan
or
some
safe
hand
from
hence
the
recruits
at
fort
cumberland
are
all
paid
off
to
the
1st
of
oc
tober
as
private
men
there
being
no
distinc
tion
made
between
them
and
sergeants
none
having
yet
been
regularly
appointed
colonel
stephen
will
give
you
an
ac
count
of
those
he
has
paid
and
how
if
any
have
received
sergeants
pay
it
must
be
deducted
next
payment
as
also
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orders
and
instructions
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1755
279
two
pence
per
month
from
each
non
commissioned
officer
and
soldier
for
purchasing
medicines
this
is
to
be
paid
to
the
surgeon
quarterly
there
is
also
six
pence
per
month
to
be
stopped
from
the
drum
mers
to
be
paid
to
the
drum
major
for
teaching
them
and
repairing
the
drums
these
deductions
you
are
hereby
ordered
to
make
each
pay
day
unless
coun
termanded
by
the
governor
or
myself
if
any
non
commissioned
officer
or
soldier
should
happen
to
die
he
is
to
be
continued
on
the
pay
roll
as
an
ef
fective
man
for
twenty
eight
days
to
pay
for
his
coffin
c
i
am
c
gw
1st
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
company
eight
regimental
coats
ten
waistcoats
ten
pair
of
breeches
nine
hats
eleven
shirts
as
many
pair
of
stockings
and
the
same
quantity
of
shoes
you
are
also
to
deliver
to
the
said
wilper
for
the
use
of
the
said
company
twelve
musquets
twenty
bayonets
and
ten
cartouch
box
out
of
those
arms
now
in
store
gw
nb
the
bayonets
must
be
delivered
out
of
those
loose
ones
in
the
store
you
are
also
ordered
to
de
liver
twenty
blankets
octo
30th
to
sergeant
david
wilper
of
the
virginia
regiment
you
are
hereby
ordered
so
soon
as
300
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orders
and
instructions
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1755
hogg
company
if
any
opportunity
offers
you
are
to
be
particularly
ex
act
and
careful
in
these
payments
see
ing
that
there
is
no
disagreement
between
the
returns
and
your
pay
rolls
as
there
will
be
strict
examination
into
it
hereaf
ter
i
am
c
gw
alexandria
december
3
1755
5th
to
the
honourable
robert
dinwiddie
esquire
governor
i
have
sent
the
bearer
cap
tain
john
mercer
who
has
accompts
to
settle
with
the
committee
to
the
treasu
rer
for
the
balance
of
that
ten
thousand
pounds
and
to
aquaint
your
honour
that
meeting
with
letters
at
fredericks
burgh
as
i
returned
from
williamsburgh
informing
me
that
all
was
peaceable
above
and
that
nothing
was
so
imme
diately
wanting
as
salt
i
got
what
i
could
at
that
place
and
hastened
on
here
to
engage
more
to
receive
the
recruits
that
were
expected
in
and
to
wait
the
ar
rival
of
the
vessel
with
arms
c
from
james
river
in
order
to
forward
them
up
with
the
greater
dispatch
the
vessel
is
not
yet
arrived
i
have
impatiently
expected
to
hear
the
result
of
you
honours
letter
to
general
shirley
and
with
that
the
de
p
301
letters
orders
and
instructions
december
1755
lays
may
not
prove
ominous
in
that
case
i
shall
not
know
how
to
act
for
i
can
never
submit
to
the
command
of
captain
dag
morthy
since
you
have
honoured
me
with
the
command
of
the
virginia
regiment
c
the
country
has
sustained
inconceivable
losses
by
delaying
the
commissaries
at
williamsburgh
many
of
the
carolina
beeves
are
dead
through
ab
solute
poverty
and
the
chief
part
of
them
too
poor
to
slaughter
we
are
at
a
loss
how
to
act
for
want
of
the
mutiny
bill
and
should
be
obliged
to
your
honour
to
have
fifty
or
an
hundred
printed
and
sent
by
the
bearer
there
is
a
clause
in
that
bill
which
if
you
are
not
kind
enough
to
boviate
will
prevent
entirely
the
good
inten
tion
of
it
ie
delaying
the
execution
of
sen
tences
until
your
honour
shall
be
made
ac
quainted
with
the
proceedings
of
the
court
this
at
times
when
there
is
the
great
est
occasion
for
expamples
will
be
morally
im
possible
i
mean
while
we
are
on
our
march
perhaps
near
the
ohio
when
none
but
strong
par
ties
can
pass
with
safety
at
all
times
it
must
be
attended
with
great
expence
trouble
and
inconve
niency
this
i
represented
to
colonel
corbin
and
some
other
gentlemen
of
the
council
when
i
was
down
who
said
that
that
objection
to
the
bill
would
be
removed
by
your
hon
ours
giving
blank
warrants
to
be
filled
up
as
occasion
should
require
this
would
effec
tually
remedy
all
those
evils
and
put
things
in
their
proper
channel
we
suffer
greatly
for
want
of
ket
302
letters
orders
and
instructions
december
1755
kettles
those
sent
from
below
being
tin
are
of
small
duration
we
shall
also
in
a
little
time
suffer
as
much
for
want
of
clothing
one
can
be
got
in
these
parts
those
which
major
carlyle
and
dalton
contracted
to
furnish
we
are
disappointed
off
shoes
and
stockings
we
have
and
can
get
more
if
wanted
but
nothing
else
i
should
be
glad
you
honor
would
direct
what
is
to
be
done
in
these
ca
ses
and
that
you
would
be
kind
enough
to
desire
the
treasurer
to
send
some
part
of
the
money
in
gold
and
silver
were
this
done
we
might
often
get
necessaries
for
the
regiment
in
maryland
or
pennsylvania
when
they
can
not
be
had
here
but
with
our
money
it
is
is
impossible
our
paper
not
passing
there
the
recruiting
service
goes
on
ex
tremely
slow
yesterday
being
a
day
appointed
for
rendezvousing
at
this
place
there
came
in
ten
officers
with
twenty
men
only
if
i
had
any
other
than
paper
money
and
you
appro
ved
of
it
i
would
send
to
pennsylvania
and
the
borders
of
carolina
i
am
confident
men
might
be
had
there
your
honor
never
having
given
any
particular
directi
ons
about
the
provisions
i
should
be
glad
to
know
whether
you
would
have
more
laid
in
than
what
will
serve
for
twelve
hundred
men
that
i
may
give
orders
accordingly
as
i
can
not
now
conceive
that
any
great
danger
can
be
apprehended
at
fort
cumberland
this
winter
i
am
sensible
that
my
constant
attendance
there
can
not
p
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1755
be
so
serviceable
as
riding
from
place
to
place
making
the
proper
dispositions
and
seeing
that
all
our
neces
saries
are
forwarded
up
with
dispatch
i
there
fore
think
it
advisable
to
inform
your
honour
of
it
hoping
that
it
will
correspond
with
your
own
opinion
i
forgot
to
mention
when
i
was
down
that
mr
living
ston
the
fort
major
was
appointed
adjutant
to
our
regiment
i
knew
of
none
else
whose
long
servitude
in
a
military
way
had
qualified
better
for
the
office
he
was
appointed
the
17th
of
september
captain
mercer
pay
as
aid
de
camp
seems
yet
doubtful
i
should
be
glad
if
your
honour
would
fix
it
so
is
captain
stewarts
if
captain
stewarts
is
encreased
i
suppose
all
the
officers
belonging
to
the
light
horse
will
expect
to
have
theirs
augmen
ted
also
colonel
stephens
in
a
late
letter
dis
covered
an
inclination
to
go
to
the
creek
and
che
rokee
indians
this
winter
i
told
him
where
to
apply
if
he
had
any
such
thoughts
i
believe
on
so
useful
a
business
he
might
be
spared
until
the
spring
if
your
honor
think
proper
to
or
der
the
act
of
assembly
for
apprehending
deser
ters
and
against
harbouring
them
to
be
published
every
sunday
in
each
parish
church
until
the
people
were
made
acquainted
with
the
law
it
would
have
a
very
good
effect
the
commonalty
in
gene
ral
or
more
through
ignorance
than
design
few
of
them
are
acquainted
that
such
a
law
exists
and
there
is
no
other
certain
way
of
bringing
it
to
their
knowledge
there
are
a
great
many
of
the
men
that
did
once
belong
to
our
companies
deserted
from
the
regiments
into
which
they
were
draugh
ted
that
would
now
gladly
return
if
they
could
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sure
of
idemnity
if
your
honor
would
be
kind
enough
to
intimate
this
to
general
shirley
or
the
colonels
of
those
regiments
it
would
be
of
service
to
us
without
leave
we
dare
not
receive
them
c
gw
alexandria
december
5th
1755
5th
to
john
robinson
esquire
speaker
the
bearer
captain
john
mercer
having
leave
to
go
down
and
settle
his
ac
compts
with
the
committee
is
ordered
to
call
upon
you
for
the
balance
of
the
ten
thousand
pounds
which
i
believe
we
shall
want
before
another
opportunity
may
offer
this
being
the
time
when
our
demands
for
money
are
greatest
when
i
left
willi
amsburgh
i
intended
to
proceed
to
winches
ter
but
meeting
with
letters
at
fredericks
burgh
informing
me
that
peace
prevailed
above
and
that
nothing
was
immediate
ly
wanted
but
salt
i
came
up
here
to
en
gage
what
i
could
and
to
wait
the
arrival
of
some
recruits
at
this
place
and
a
vessel
with
sundry
arms
c
for
the
troops
this
ves
sel
left
williamsburgh
two
days
after
i
did
and
is
not
yet
arrived
neither
is
the
ex
press
returned
which
the
governor
sent
to
general
shirley
for
commissions
for
the
field
officers
of
our
regiment
which
gives
me
much
concern
fearing
that
this
de
lay
is
ominous
in
that
case
i
shall
not
know
how
to
act
it
will
be
useless
for
me
