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of the Council of Safety\ 1775-76. 483
in order that they might collect together, that they might
rescue William Morgan or any other person whom we might
take in custody and by God if he had had as many men as
we, he would not have run a foot from us, but would have
stood and made battle, and further this Deponent saith not:—
Harry Dickinson
And it appearing to the Committee that the said Cornelius
Hogans from his own confession did not properly belong to
the Company whose conduct he undertook to influence but
was at that very time enrolled in a Company of Militia in
Dorchester County, The Committee are of opinion that the
said Hogans is a dangerous person and therefore Resolved
unanimously that the said Cornelius Hogans be committed to
a guard and sent with the above charges against him to the
Council of Safety of this Province, and the said Hogans was
accordingly committed to the care of Captain Joseph Richard-
son & a Guard of five men: A true copy from the Minutes,
signed p order of Committee Jno Tillotson Clk.
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[Barrister Carroll to Hayward.J
My dear Sir. I received last night Mr Tilghmans letter of
Sunday last Inclosing the resolves of the Virginia Convention
and I assure you I would most willingly ride down to Annapolis
to be with you for a day or two were I in a condition to do it
or to be of much service but I am so unhinged and relaxed by
my attendance & confinement that I am plagued with almost
constant little fevers and 'tho I keep about I am apprehensive
such a ride would lay me up & it is with difficulty 1 now hold
a Pen to write to you. I will however with as much precision as
I can, give you my sentiments. If you are fully convinced of
the propriety of the present Council of Safety, Entering into a
vindication of the conduct of the convention and the proceed-
ings of the former Council, by letter to the Committee of
Safety of Virga against aspersions thrown out by the conven-
tion of that Colony in their Resolves, I think you have the
matter and the grounds for the conduct of the Council of
Safety fully set forth in our letters to the Congress and our
several letters to our deputies on the intercepted letters and
our proceeding with the Governor and I think the more con-
cise and pointed such letter, is, the better— they may be told
that the Council of Safety proceeded in a matter to wh. they
were competent on testimony that they the Convention of Virga
could not be Privy to, that they were happy in having their
conduct approved of by that convention of the Province, and
that you would not condescend to enter into a discussion of
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