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tions, to wit, The Deposition of Thomas Mayns, one Sheet; of
Jonathan Plummer, ditto; of Casper Thiphart, ditto; of John Perrin,
ditto; of Thomas Richardson, ditto; of Conrad Farmer, ditto; of
William Young, ditto; of James Long, ditto; of Peter Butler, ditto;
of Samuel Beall, ditto; of Samuel Swearingen, ditto; of John Mack-
fadin, ditto; of James Boyle, ditto; of Isaac Baker, ditto; of Joseph
Norris, ditto; of Joseph Flint, ditto; and of Samuel Beall, with an
Account annexed, ditto; of John William Smith, half a Sheet; of
Peter Percival, ditto; of Hezekiah Hyat, ditto; of Robert Black-
burn, ditto; of Evan Shelby, ditto; of Thomas Cooper, ditto; of
James Dixon, ditto; of John Ogilvie, ditto; of Duncan McCrae,
ditto; of Van Swearingen, senior, ditto; of Charles Swearingen,
ditto; of William Shearer, Three Quarters of a Sheet; and a Copy
of the Affirmation of Joseph Vulgamot.
I thought proper to particularize them in this Manner, lest you
should not have sent all the Papers that you intended; and if, on
Enquiry, you should find that any, which ought to have been given
to me, remain in your House, or in the Hands of the Gentlemen
of the Committee, you will be pleased to send them with the Com-
mittee's Report, that I may make an Enquiry into the Facts therein
mentioned; and you may be assured, that if I find the Inhabitants
have really just Cause to complain of the Behaviour of any of the
Officers or Men that have been supported at the Expence of this
Province, for his Majesty's Service and the Defence and Protection
of our Frontiers, nothing shall be wanting on my Part to bring the
Offenders to Justice. There are, I perceive, among the Deponents,
many Persons that my Stay on the Frontiers the Summer before
last gave me an Opportunity of knowing; and if they had been as
well known to you as they are to me, I am persuaded you would not
have desired them to depose on the present Occasion. There are,
believe me, many Facts mentioned, and several Things asserted, in
these Depositions, which I myself know to be false; but these, I
doubt not, the Officers will point out when they come to make their
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 49
Dec. 9
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Defence, and to answer the Charges that are laid against them. I do
not, Gentlemen, design this as a particular Answer to your Address,
or to any of the Depositions that should have been annexed thereto;
but I cannot help saying it seems a little extraordinary, when the
Complainants all know, that if the Troops on the Frontiers were
under the Direction or Command of any Person in this Province,
they must be under mine, that they should never think of applying
to me for Redress, in Case they thought themselves really injured
by them. As Mr. Chapline is a Member of your House, he has prob-
ably acquainted you with the Contents of some Letters, which have
been at Times wrote to him by my Order since the Conclusion of
the Baltimore Session; but lest he should not have been so communi-
cative, I take the Liberty to lay before you Copies of those Letters,
together with Copies of such as I, or my Secretary, received from
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