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from time to time and at all times hereafter as occasion shall
require all matters of import conduceing any way to their
Majesties Service and the good and welfare of their subjects
here, also by suppressing seizing and securing all such sus-
picious and suspected persons as already are or shall at any
time hereafter flye or go from here into your Government,
without good & sufficient lycense from some Magistrate or
other person or persons thereunto lawfully authorized and
appointed within this Province; or other good, pregnant &
undeniable circumstances otherwise clearing them; and in all
things whatsoever to bear us your hearty affections love and
good will in all the waies of Friendshipp and a mutuall good
correspondency; all which we shall with all due care imagin-
able labour to preserve & keepe inviolate on our parts towards
you, omitting nothing that may appear serviceable or anywaies
conduceing to your interest, peace & welfare. Whereunto we
desire all faith & credence may be given.
Idem to Pensylvania, New York
and New England.
To the right honble the Deputy
Govr or President of their Majesties
Colony of Virginia & the rest of the honble
their Majestic's Councill of State there.
These
(Endorsed)
Maryland,
28. August 1689.
Letter from the Assembly to the Adjacent Colonies.
Recd from Lord Baltemore 31. Decr 1689.
[Order concerning Jacob Young and the Indians.]
By the Assembly, Augt 28th 1689.
Forasmuch as severall Overtures have been made by some
of our late greate Officers and others popishly affected within
this Province to the Northern Indians and others for the ruin
& destruction of their Majesties Protestant Subjects here, (as
we have credibly been informed) to the greate terror, amaze-
ment and consternation of the Inhabitants of this Province:
And whereof Jacob Young formerly employed by this Prov-
ince in affaires of this nature, as well knowne and skilled in
the language and customes of the said Indians) hath been
deemed by this House a person most fitt and capable to
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