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are known unto you wherefore give me leave to referr you
unto him and rest :
ffrom S^t Maries this 23^th Yo^r faithfull friend to Serve
August 1642 you.
Leonard Calvert
25^th August 1642
Henry Bishop
You are notwithstanding any former Order or Instructions
to the Contrary to permitt all Inhabitants of your Division to
tend their Cropps only upon any alarum they are to repair
without any delay to your ffort and upon any alarum from
Patuxent you are to repair with all your Strength to aid that
ffort, and the English there whereof fail not, And this Shall be
your warrant
Signed Leonard Calvert

[Orders in case of attack by Indians.]

Whereas it is necessary for the Safety of the Colony to reduce
the Inhabitants liveing dispersed in Several plantations to Some
places of better Strength in Case of any Suddain inroad of In-
dian Robbers and pillagers, I have therefore appointed and
doe hereby Command and Ordain in the name of the Lord
Propriary that noe Inhabitant of this Colony presume (untill
further Order or liberty in that behalf) to discharge or Concurr
to the dischargeing of three Gunns within the Space of one
quarter of an hour upon any occasion whatsoever unless upon
Mustring days except there be reasonable occasion to make an
Alarum and that every one upon the Sight of any Indians in
any Suspicious manner without delay use the best means he
may to make an Alarum by the dischargeing of three Gunns
as near one after another as he May, And that every house-

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keeper upon the hearing of an Alarum Answer it by Shooting
off 3 Gunns. And that every housekeeper inhabiting in S^t
Michael hundred between S^t Inigo's Creek and Trinity Creek
imediatly upon the knowledge hereof carry his women and
Children as are belonging to his family unto S^t Inigo's ffort
there to abide for one Month from the date hereof, unless
liberty be Sooner given to the Contrary And I doe hereby
Command, and authorise the Sherriff of this County to take
charge and Command of all the persons able to bear arms
within the division aforesaid, and to appoint 6. able men to
keep Guard in the Said ffort day and night during the time
aforesaid — And I require all the persons able to bear arms
within the limitts aforesaid to be obedient and assistant unto
the Said Sherrift in the Execution of his S^d Charge as they will
answer the Contrary at their perill. And I doe further appoint

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