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George Hipp to Col. Benjamin Garden [Original MS.] July 10, 1778. SIR: Your last orders to me was to keep only one fourth of the company on duty; the rest were sent to you, now most of them are returned (as they tell me from Charles Town); should be glad to know what is to be done with them. I have ordered them on duty in different parts of the district, and shall be glad to have your approbation; we are surrounded on all sides by the enemy. I have put a Sergeant and six men at Shubrick's Cliff; a Sergeant and ten men on the river May; and am myself with ten men at Colleton's Bluff, the mouth of Oakety Creek. Mr. Guerard's school master has lately come over to the Barony, and carried off a handkerchief full of indigo, and told the negroes he intended coming for the whole shortly. I have ordered a patrol of six men to keep a look out for him; another officer is much wanted to take post on May river, from whence I have reason to think a correspondance is carried between some of the inhabitants and Georgia. I have ordered Mr. Pendarvis to you for trial. He has certainly taken the oath, and there are some returned from town that have taken it-say Joseph Sealey, John Kerr, and Thos. Scott-they took protection from Capt. Thacher at Purysburgh, and all that took protection from him were sworn as likewise those that went to stone the Capt. of the Galley at Purysburgh. None mind the oath but those that went to Major Vanbram at Ebenezer, and they all got printed certificates. There is a continual concourse of small craft (such as sloops and schooners) going to and fro, through Scull Creek. A small galley (such as one of the trading boats would make that are laying in New River) would annoy them much and might have a safe retreat up to Pring's Creek, should any thing too hard for her come against her. I am sir, your most obedient humble servant, GEO. HIPP (From Documentary History of the American Revolution, by Gibbes, Volume 2, p. 120) Doc ID: Gibbes, v. 2, p. 120 Date: 7/10/1778 |
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