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People, and scattered their Bones as you see over the Coun-
try. You also tell me that upon our Fathers Pleasure being
made known to you, you have taken up the Hatchet against
our Enemies, and that you will hold it fast 'till you have used
it against the French and the Indians in their Alliance. I am
well pleased that you have already taken such a Resolution,
I hope you will soon make our Enemies sensible of it and
that you will prosecute the War Vigorously against them. To
make your Hatchet sharp, and to confirm it in your Hands
I present you with this String of black Wampum
You were told you say when you came to Fort Frederick
that you were no longer in Virginia but in another Province
this was true, but then I must observe to you that we are
notwithstanding one People, the Inhabitants of Carolina
Virginia, Maryland Pensilvania, and of all the Provinces
to the Northward, are Brethren Subjects of the same King
and those who are Friends to any of us must be Friends to
all, you are then the Friends of us all, let us become one
people, and unite against the French, and their Indians our
Enemies, let our Men go out to War with you, look on them
as your Brethren teach them to fight after your manner,
and then neither the French nor their Allies will be able to
stand before you. For your Encouragement and as a Reward
for them that fight bravely I will give you a Present as large
as that now lying before you for every two Enemies that you
shall take Prisoners, or kill, and bring me the Scalps of; or
I will give you the Value thereof in Money, Let this sink
deep into the Minds of your young Men and remember my
Promise in the Day of Battle. I have ordered Captain Beall
who commands the Men at Fort Cumberland to receive and
at all times treat you and those of your Nation that you
expect will join you as Brethren and as my best Friends I
have also notified your Arrival to your Brother the Governor
of Pensilvania. In this Shape I have done according to your
Desire, and that the Words which I have now spoken are
agreeable to you to confirm the Truth of them, and to con-
vince you that they flow from my Heart I give you this Belt.

Lib. J. R.

& U. S.

To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Lieutenant Gov-
ernor and Commander in Chief of the Province of Maryland

S^r
Agreeable to the Instructions which we had the Honour
to receive from your Excellency the 17^th Instant we pro-
ceeded the same Day towards Fort Frederick and reached
that Place on the nineteenth in the Afternoon, we were met
about nine Miles beyond Conegochiegh by a Party of the

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