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I Doe hereby will W^m Burges to observe pforme
Execute respective ord^rs Instructions Direc-
tions and hereafter mentioned in such manner and
forme as the same are hereby ord^red and directed to be
observed, pformed and Executed that is to say.
First. You are to take und^r yo^r Command the pty raised
for yo^r Guard out of S^t Maries, Calvert & Charles Counties, &
with them to saile directly for the mouth of Nanticoke River,
and from thence or as y^u pass by the mouth of Wiccocomico
River to send the Ord^r directed by me to Coll W^m Colebourne
that he may meete y^u at the gen^ll Rendezvous at Chicacone in
Nanticok River, being the place where the Empero^r now doth
or lately did reside, and then takeing in a Pilott you are to
saile directly to the s^d Towne of Chicacone, where the rest of
the fforces from Dorchester, Talbott Kent and Caecill Coun-
ties are ord^red to Rendezvous :
2: At the arrivall of the s^d fforces you are to cause them to
be mustered, and to take a view of their Armes, and an Acco^t
of their pvisions that the unarmed may be provided & the
Camp supplyed w^th Provisions, sending out then Immediate
ord^rs to Somersett & Dorchester Counties to supply yo^r
present wants, and to the remoter Counties for a continuance
of those Supplies.
3: You are by all Convenient waies and meanes to labour
to possess the minds of Hatsawapp, Ababco & Teinguassino
the Kings in Choptank, as also Amonugus the Empero^r of
Assateague that we meane them noe harme at all, & that we
designe noe harme to Unnacokassimon himself nor his People,
provided he will deliver up Krawacom, and the two other
Indians (whose names we know not) who murdered David
Williams and the rest of the English in his house, & you are
to Labour to make them und^rstand, that in Case of murd^r we
doe Expect those that actually did the Deed, not a like numb:
to the murd^red unless there were p^rsent aideing assisting &
abetting as many murd^rs as there were murd^red.