Majesty's Pleasure that you should apply to your Council and
Assembly in the strongest manner to raise with the utmost
Expedition as large a number of Provincial Troops as may be
for the Service of the ensuing Campaign over and above what
they shall judge necessary for the immediate Defence of their
own Province. And as I am now preparing agreeable to his
Majesty's Orders to me to leave this Province with the Trans-
ports in order to join the Fleet, and succours from Europe,
It's necessary to acquaint you that I shall leave Major General
Webb to command at Albany and the Forts with a Body of
his Majesty's regular Forces, together with the Troops raised
by the northern Colonies, who will have the principal Com-
mand during my Absence. And that in Consequence of the
Plan settled at the meeting I had with the Governors of the
Southern Provinces at Philadelphia, I leave Colonel Stanwix
with 5 Companies of the first Battalion of the Royal American
Regiment to take Post in the Back Parts of Pensilvania, and
to have the Command of the remaining Part of the Pensilvania
Troops, the Troops raised in Maryland, and the remain-
ing Part of the Troops raised in Virginia. And that I detach
Lieutenant Colonel Bouquet with the other 5 Companies of
that Battalion to South Carolina, who carrys with him two
hundred of the Pensilvania Troops four hundred of the Vir-
ginia Troops, and have ordered two hundred of the Troops
raised by North Carolina to meet him in South Carolina where
he is to take the Command of his Majesty's three independent
Companies, and likewise of the Troops raised by the Province of
South Carolina for the Security of that, and the most southernly
Provinces. And in order to prevent any Dispute hereafter, it
will be necessary here to remind you, that at that Meeting it
was settled, and is agreeable to his Majestys Orders from his
principal Secretary of State that I should supply the Provincial
Troops detached from Pensilvania, Virginia, and North Caro-
lina to South Carolina but that the Provincial Troops who
remain and are employed for the Defence of their respective
Provinces should be entirely supported and maintained by the
Provinces by whom they are raised. As the Plan we had set-
tled before the Arrival of his Majesty's Orders by his principal
Secretary of State, I hope if punctually and speedily executed
on your Part will prevent any immediate Danger, I must
recommend it to you in the most earnest manner that you will
immediately in Consequence of his Majestys Orders signified
to you set about raising and getting in Readiness, a consider-
able Force to be ready to join and support the Troops already
agreed upon to be raised for the public Service.
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Liber J. R.
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1753-67.
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