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    reign Plantacons, directions unto me for tht purpose to pay Lib. H. D.

    unto the Reverend Mr Richd Sewell Twenty Pounds being one p. 114

    of the sd Ministers whose Receipt will be yor discharge; accord

    ing to the sd Ordinance: fail not in Complyance with this Ordr

    from

      To Majr Thomas Smithson       ffr: Nicholson

    Treasurer for the Eastern Shore f

                          These.

                   July the 15th 1697.

      May it please yor EXnCY

    Capt Bright. The last Week there was a man Come out of

    well's Lre

    his Exncy aht Virga wch told me tht he believed there would be

    Indians &ca more Murder done this year, I told him I thought

    not, he said he believed there would, and I asked him his

    Reason soe, he told me of a Peace, that was Concluded betwixt

    our Indians and the mountain Indians by giving & Receiving

    of a Pipe, he tould me that they were Resolv'd for a Warr and

    the Warr Capt of the Senecors ask'd our Emperor wch side he

    would begin at, he reply'd and said it was all a Case to him

    for one side drove him from his home and the other side has

    Robed him of his Corn and goods; and since Received the

    inclosed Letter from Coll: Addison no more to trouble yor

    Exncy at this prsent      Yor most humble Servt

                              Richard Brightwell

                   July the 13th 1697.

      Capt Brightwell

    Coll: Addisons This Evening Came John the ffrenchman from

    Lre to Cap.

    Brightwell abt Virga & Saith tht John Peeke one of Capt Masons

    Indians Troop came up this afternoon and gives Accot

    that a Woman and three Children at the head of Acquio Creek P 76

    was on Sunday Morning last Murdered by Indians; I send you

    this Notice tht yo may keep the Stricter Eye abroad, I am

    your ffriend,

      Let me have yor Answer        John Addison

    what time you Receive this voll

            Port of Annapolis July 16th 1697.

           Betwixt 8 & 9 a Clock in the morning

      Capt Brightwell

    His Exncys Lre to Capt Brightwell Just now I recd Yors of Yesterdays date & I

             am Sorry you did not secure the man (according

    abt theto Law) tht told you the Story about the Indians

    Indians &Ca

    but I hope in God the Story he told you about the