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I am further to Inform you, that similar Orders are sent, by this
Conveyance, to Pensylvania Virginia North Carolina, & South
Carolina The Northern Governments are also directed to raise Men
in the same manner to be employed as his Majestys Commander in
Chief shall judge most conducive for the Kings Service in North
America
It is unnecessary to add any thing to animate your Zeal in the
Execution of his Majesty's Orders in this important Conjuncture,
which is finally to fix the future Safety & Welfare of America &
of your Province in particular And the King doubts not from your
known Fidelity and Attchment, that you will employ yourself with
the utmost Application & Dispatch in this promising & decisive Crisis
I am with great Faith & Regard
S^rs your most Obedient humble Servant
Egremont

New York 9^th Feb^ry 1762
S^r

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
March 17

By the General Wall Packett, which Arrived here this Morning
I am Honored with a Letter from the Earl of Egremont One of his
Majestys Principal Secretaries of State Bearing date the 12^th Dec.^r
last, wherein His Lordship is pleased to Acquaint me that, as the
King has Nothing so much at heart as to Secure & Improve the
great & Important Advantages gained since the Commencement of
this War in North America, & having seen his good Dispositions to
Restore the Publick Tranquility entirely frustrated by the Insincerity
& Chicane of the Court of Versailles, in the late Negotciation, His
Majesty is again Obliged to take into his Royal Consideration what
Ulterior Operations can be Entered upon by such part of the Troops
under my Command, as can be spared for other Service without the
least Diminuation of the full & Entire Security as well of his Maj-
esty's former Dominions, as of those as of those Acquired by Con-
quest in North America. In Order that every thing may be in readi-
ness for an Early Campaign, & to be able to Employ an Adequate
Number of the Regular Forces whatever Attack may be Resolved
upon His Majesty has thought it necessary to Lose no time in Dis-
patching His Orders to the Several Governors in North America,
for Levying with the utmost Expedition the Quotas required of the
respective Provinces
His Majesty's Directions, on this Subject, to the Several Governors
are so fully Specifyed in the Circular Letter Wrote by the Earl of
Egremont of which his Lordship has sent me a copy that it only
Remains with me most Earnestly to Entreat you, to Lose no time
in Convening your Assembly & Laying before them the aforesaid
Letter of the Secretary of State; & that you will forthwith Use your

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