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you with the same Freedom, if your Conduct on all Occasions
had not been such as I well approved of. I am very sorry
Captain Browne should be still unable to persuade his Men
to march to the Frontiers in Obedience to my Orders, and I
am more concerned that he should have declined certifying
to a Magistrate the Names of such as refused to march
when he had my peremptory Orders to do so. I have not
sealed the inclosed that you may see what Answer I have
given to Captain Brown's last Letter, and I hope it will have
its proper Weight, but if the Captain should for Fear of
incurring the Censure of a few popular Men or to curry
Favour with those that he has a Right and ought to command
still decline to return to a Magistrate the Names of those
Men that refuse to march, I must desire you to return them
or to see that they are returned or certified by some other
Field-Officer that the Law may have it's Effect. I need not
point out to you the ill Consequences that would necessarily
follow was I to countermand the Orders that have been given
to Captain Browne, or was I to connive at his Company's
Refusal to obey them; the only way to prevent them is to
insist on Captain Brown's Compliance, and notwithstanding
what has already happened I persuade myself that when you
have talked with the Captain again, & delivered him my
Letter he will shew a proper Spirit and act with the Resolu-
tion becoming a Gentleman in his Station. I am &c.
To Col: Richard Lloyd. H: S :
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Annapolis 25th January 1758:
Sir
I am sorry your Letter of the 18: Instant should have
made it necessary for me to add any Thing to the Instruc-
tions I have already given, or to what I told you when you
were lately at Annapolis but since your Men or most of them
persist in their Refusal to march I hereby command and
enjoyn you forthwith to certifie to the next Magistrate the
Names of all those that refused to march unless they will now
obey your Orders, and I do moreover command you to
proceed without Delay to Fort Frederick with such of your
Officers and Men as should be willing to march tho' they
should be no more than ten or even a less Number you will
not I hope regard the idle and false Reports of some dis-
contented, disaffected, or dastardly People or make them an
Excuse from pursuing the Orders given you by your Com-
manding Officer: if the People (have as 'tis said) been made
to believe that if you decline sending to a Magistrate the
Names of those that refuse to march they will from that
Circumstance escape with Impunity they will find themselves
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