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The Provincial Council of this province have ordered me to inform you, that the Regiments ordered to be raised on the Continental Establishment in this province are nearly compleat, yet they find insuperable difficulties in all their Attempts to procure Arms and Ammunition to render the Troops usefull in case of an emergency; That, no other probable expedient occurring by which these necessary...
Date: 6 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
Inclosed you will receive a Letter which is wrote by order of the Provincial Council, which met at Johnston Court-House the 17th of last month, the Absurdity of having two Regiments of men in pay without a possibility of their being of any Service for want of Arms and Ammunition was too striking to escape the observation of any one  several Schemes were proposed to remedy this inconvenience, as...
Date: 6 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have this day had the honour of receiving your Excellency's Letter signi fying that you had been pleased to suspend me from acting as Deputy to Mr Turner in the Naval Office, with the reasons for such removal, and it gives me pleasure that I do not find neglect of the duties of my Office in the Catalogue of my Crimes.
At the same time that I hold myself obliged to your Excellency for the Polite...
Date: 16 November 1775
Volume: Volume 2