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...the Governor is not yet gone; we expect he will leave the province in a few days, what Interruption the Virginians will or can give him in his passage down the Bay time will discover....
Should the Congress think proper to request us to March our Militia in the manner T.S. hath intimated, we must be under the disagreeable Necessity of calling the Convention, tis not with us to say they shall march out of the province; and no doubt the Militia themselves will be backward in so doing till all danger of Invasion here be at an end for the Season ー 3400 Militia would take all the Arms we have that are serviceable, and then what condition would our own province be in; we should become an easy prey to the Men of War and Tenders that will Swarm in the Bay dureing the Summer, and perhaps the ministerial Troops may be tempted by our Weakness to do what they would not otherwise have attempted. this we say upon supposition that we must furnish them wih Arms &c! ー We shall hear more fully however hereafter. ー
The Intelligence with regard to 7,000 Men [call]ing and declareing for Independence is without foundation we take it to be news from some Incendiary: ー Mr. Purveyance got off with a severe Reprimand...
