Att a Council held at his Exncy the Govrs House in the City Lib. W. B.

  of Annapolis the 3d Day of June in the first Yeare of the p. 4°

  Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George of Great Britain

    &c Annoq Dni 1715.

                         Prseflt

             His Excellency the Governor &c.

             Col Edwd Lloyd  John Hall Esqr

      The honble Col Wm Coursey        Philemon Lloyd Esqr &

             Lt Col Saml Young    Lt Col Richd Tilghman

      His Exncy was pleased to comunicate to the Board a letter

    which he just now rec'd from the honble Col Alexander Spots-

    wood Lt Governr of Virginia giving an Accot of two hundred

    Familys murdered at and neare unto a Place called Port Royal

    in South Carolina: Which said Letter was read at the

    Boarde.

      And is as followeth Viz.

  Governr of Virginia Letter abt the Indn Warn at So. Carolina p. 41

                         Williamsburgh May 27, 1715

    Sr

      I received the Honour of yours of the 8th of the last month,

    and do Assure yo tht neither my Ambition of seeing yo is

    lessened, nor has years or infirmityes so much altered tht

    Stirring disposition which you are pleased to Say you have

    heard me distinguished by in the Army, but tht it is rather

    owing to my Misfortune tht I have not yet had the Honour

    of paying my respects to you in person, sometimes the Inter

    vention of General Assemblys and for the most part the

    forming and Executing of certain projects for the security of

    Our frontiers, have fallen into disappoint my Intentions And

    now if I hoped I had overcome all these Avocations and flat

    tered myselfe wth the Prospect of a little Leizure time. An

    Accident the most Extraordinary of any I have yet read of in

    any History of America and which I am now to Informe you,

    has given me a fresh disappointment For two days ago I re

    ceived a Letter from Colo Craven Governor of South Carolina

    tht all the nations of Indians in those parts are Broke out in

    open hostility against them wth intention to Extirpate his

    MajtYs Subjects of tht Province. Tho Colo Craven in the

    hurry he was in, is very short in his relation of this Affair, yet