212 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

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and Assembly for the punctual and immediate Execution of
these his Majesty's Commands. I am likewise to acquaint
you that the Earl of Loudoun is directed to send forthwith
to Virginia a Battalion of regular Forces to be employed, as
the Exigency shall require for the Succour and Defence of
the said Province of Virginia, South Carolina or any other of
the Southern Provinces.
I am Sir
Your most obed^t humble Serv^t,
Governor of Maryland W.. Pitt.

p. 181

New York May 5^th 1757

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As I have received a Copy of a Letter from one of his
Majesty's principal Secretary's of State to you, signifying
his Majesty's Pleasure that you should apply to your Coun-
cil and Assembly in the strongest manner to raise with the
utmost Expedition as large a Number of Provincial Troops
as may be for the Service of the ensuing Campaign over and
above what they shall judge necessary for the immediate
Defence of their own Province. And as I am now preparing
agreeable to his Majesty's Orders to me to leave this Prov-
ince with the Transports in order to join the Fleet, and
Succours from Europe, It's necessary to acquaint you that I
shall leave Major General Webb to command at Albany and
the Forts with a Body of his Majesty's regular Forces to-
gether with the Troops raised by the Northern Colonies, who
will have the principal Command during my Absence. And
that in Consequence of the Plan settled at the Meeting I had
with the Governors of the Southern Provinces at Phila-
delphia, I leave Colonel Stanwix with 5.. Companies of the
first Battalion of the Royal American Regiment to take
Post in the Back Parts of Pensilvania, and to have the Com-
mand of the remaining Part of the Pensilvania Troops, the
Troops raised in Maryland, and the remaining Part of the
Troops raised in Virginia. And that I detach Lieutenant
Colonel Bouquet with the other 5: Companies of that Bat-
talion to South Carolina, who carrys with him two hundred
of the Pensilvania Troops four hundred of the Virginia
Troops, and have ordered two hundred of the Troops raised
by North Carolina to meet him in South Carolina where he
is to take the Command of his Majesty's three independent
Companies, and likewise of the Troops raised by the Province
of South Carolina for the Security of that, and the most
southernly Provinces. And in Order to prevent any Dispute
hereafter, it will be necessary here to remind you, that at
that Meeting it was settled and is agreeable to his Majesty's