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Annapolis 5th July 1763
Sir
Some late Proceedings of the Delawares and other Indians
having afforded too much room for a Suspicion that they will
again Commit hostilities on the Frontier Inhabitants of this
and the Neighbouring Provinces it is highly Proper and ex-
pedient that the Militia under your Command should be well
provided with arms and Ammunition and that the Officers in
whose Companies those People are enrolled who live to the
Westward of the South Mountain in particular should have
Instructions to muster their Companies frequently, to assign
Alarm Posts for their respective Companies & to order the
Men to repair Armed to such Posts without Delay in case any
Indians should be Discovered within your County or near the
Limits of it, That the Inhabitants may be frequently Mustered
and examined in Arms without puting them to great incon-
venience I recommend it to you to form the Men liable to
serve in that part of your County into small Companies and if
there are not a Sufficient Number of Officers already ap-
pointed I Desire you will immediately send me the Names of
such Persons in that part of your County as you think best
Qualifyed to Command the rest either as Captains or Sub-
altons that Commissions may be made out for them and sent
to You, If any Indians should come in a hostile manner into
your County you are immediately to order a Company or De-
tachment of your Militia to march in order to oppose them to
protect the Frontier Inhabitants and Defend Fort Frederick
in which case you will furnish such Company or Detachment
with Ammunition and call upon One of the Press Masters of
your County to impress in pursuance of my warrant such
provisions as they may want during the time they shall con-
tinue on duty and that the Persons from whom Provisions
shall be so taken as well as the Militia whom you shall order
into actual service may at the next Laying of the publick Levy
paid in the manner prescribed by the Militia Laws you will
direct the Officers to keep a particular Account of what the
Press master shall supply them with as well as an exact Roll
of the men who shall serve under their Command specifying
the Rank of each and the time of their being in actual service.
Presuming that many of the People who live beyond Fort
Frederick will in Case of an Alarm repair to that Fort for
Security I have wrote to Doctor Heinzman to whose Care the
Keys of the Fort were Committed to admit them into it on
Condition that they do not in any respect injure the Buildings
and that they observe all such orders & Regulations as he with
your Approbation shall think fit to establish as well for the
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