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The following orders and letters were written:
In the Council of Safety, Dec. 17th, 1775.
Sir ー You are directed to confer with the Hon. William Henry Drayton and Doct. [David] Oliphant, upon taking post and erecting a fascine battery for four canon, eighteen pounders, at Haddrel's Point, with all convenient dispatch; and for this service you will order a detachment from the provincials,...
Date: 17 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
The President laid before the Council the following letters, written by him:
Gentlemen ー Although I have it not in order, I take the liberty of recommending the written resolve to your attention, and that you will as much as in you lies, hinder the exportation of the produce of this colony to Georgia by any and every person, who will not give you satisfactory security that such produce shall not...
Date: 31 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
To Robert Coc[h]ran Esqr Greeting ー
By Virtue of a Resolve of the great & general Court of this Colony, pass'd the sixteenth instant, You are hereby permitted & impowered to inlist a Number of Seamen for the Defence of the sister Colony of So Carolina, not exceeding three hundred Men, out of the Inhabitants of this Government, except such as are employ'd in the Continental Army, in the...
Date: 17 February 1776
Volume: Volume 3