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ways and, considering the Road, we submit to you whether it
would not be well for the Arms to be taken out of the Cases
at the Tenoloways and the Men carry them up in their Hands.
We hope and expect from the great Change in our Affairs,
that you will not be long distressed by the Indians, or we on
the Water by the British. We are &c^a
Col^o Barrett.

C. C.

[Duer and Others to Gov. Johnson.]
Sir,
Inclosed we send you Extracts from a Letter found on board
a sloop which stranded on Cape Henlopen the 1^st instant.
We should have sent your Excellency the original, but that
there were other matters in it which concern the State of
Virginia. You will perceive Sir, how necessary the utmost
vigilance will be to detect and punish these nefarious practices,
which we have reason to apprehend are frequently repeated
on the Eastern shore in your State and in Delaware. Con-
gress, having obtained several Letters which were found in
the afs^d sloop, referred them to a Committee: As we find
nothing in any others of them, that we conceive may be
useful to you, we have only to assure you that it will afford
us a singular pleasure to render you any service in assisting
to secure and bring to trial such wicked Traitors. We have
the Honor to be
Your Excellency's
York-Town Most obedient humble Servants
May 16^th 1778. W^m Duer
Tho^s M.Kean
Richard Henry Lee
His Excellency
Thomas Johnson Esquire

Extract of a Letter from John Lancaster of New York to
M^r James Parker at Philadelphia, dated April 27. 1778.

"On the 25^th the S^t Albans arrived here from Hampton
Road, in her old Gutrich and a son of D^r Strohans of Rich-
mond Came passengers, she brought upwards of two hundred
prisoners, and M^r Gutrich says that 130 men from Somerset
County in Maryland are on board the Virginia Frigate inlisted
into the British Service by M^r — — — who is come off with
them, and that the above Gentleman at pleasure could fetch
off 170 more who had agreed to enter into the King's Service,
Last night came to this city a young man of the name of

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