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I leave this early tomorrow morning, I have been detained here all day writing, fishing for intelligence of Genl. Clinton's destination. What the inclosed conveys I think you may be depended upon. Therefore write all your friends to stand forth & to exert themselves. Pray press the matter on Mr. Thos. P [Jones?] urge him to call forth the back Country.
In the letters you write you need not...
Date: 6 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3
The express who come [with] this will inform you by a letter to the Provincial Council of North Carolina addressed by their delegates, that Genl [Henry] Clinton is at New York in the Mercury of 26 Guns bound to Hampton in Virginia with 3 transports of 200 light troops, there to join 7 Regts from England & from thence proceed to North Carolina, & in all probability to Cape fear; as they go...
Date: 6 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3