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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
September
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defend and have Enterd into the Service of their Country, with
the greatest Alacrity.
I delivered a Copy of the Recruiting Instructions to each Captain
of our Militia, with Orders to be Deligent, And I am Sorry we have
not hither met with any Success.
I am Your Excellency's Most Obedient
Humble Servant
Jos: Belt.
Baltimore Town 5.th of Sept.r 1756.
Sir,
Your Instructions of the 30.th of August last came to hand the
same Evening, and agreable to said Orders we have Drafted out
of the Militia of this County one Hundred Men to March under
the Command of Capt. Tobias Stansbury as p the Inclosed List;
there is a few more but have Ordered the Capt to discharge all but
the above Number. Also three young Gentlemen are gone out
Voluntiers near one half them have no Arms, Part of those they
have the Capt. has Ordered to be impressed from a man near this
Town which were for sale, he has also taken the Ammunition
Lodged in this place.
I am also to inform your Excellency that one William Roberts
(who is esteemed a Man of Credit) was with us Yesterday, and
says he came through the South Mountain Thursday last, this side
of which he saw four Houses burnt about four Miles from Major
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Ogle's and that a Messenger came to him Yesterday Morning to
give him an Account that four Men were killed the same day he
came through Mountain and at the same Gap he passd which is
not above Sixty five Miles from this Place altho the Danger is so
near it was with great Difficulty we got the Number of Men.
I also received your Letter of 31.st of August inclosing your Re-
cruiting Instructions I observed your orders and will do all in my
power to get Men.
I am Your Excellencys
Most Humble Servant
John Hall
In Pursuance of an Order of the Honourable the Lower House of
Assembly last Session, to enquire Whether the Indians mentioned
in an Act, entituled, An Act to impower Commissioners to appoint
and cause to be laid out Three Thousand Acres of Land on Broad-
Creek in Somerset County, for the Use of the Nanticoke Indians,
so long as they shall occupy the Lands mentioned in the said Act,
and whether they did ever desert and leave the same, contrary to
the Form of the said Act, We make the following Report: That
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