South Carolina.
We who have hereunto voluntarily subscribed our names, do hereby, severally and respectively, each for himself, engage, agree, and swear to be true to the Associated American Colonies in general, and to the people of South Carolina in particular, and to serve them honestly and faithfully, in defence of their just rights and liberties, on board the Prosper ship-of-war, of South-Carolina aforesaid, and to observe and obey all the orders of the Provincial Congress, or Council of Safety, for the time being, and the orders of the officers set over us, by them, or either of them, or public authority thence derived, for and in consideration of the following monthly wages opposite our respective names ー that is to say:
1. R. W. Gibbes, ed., Documentary History of the American Revolution, 1764-1776... (New York, 1855), I, 259-60. Hereafter cited as Gibbes, ed., Documentary History.
