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That if Capt Murray Suspects the Inhabitants having Fire Arms stil amongst them he is to use his Utmost Endeavor to lay his hands on them, when the Inhabitants remove they will be allowd to Carry nothing with them but their money and Household Furniture that they be Kept in the Dark as to their Destination as Much as may be for they Should be of Opinion Privatly (and I believe they Certainly are) that the Government will not after all remove them from their Possessions they have the Less temptation to be Doing Mischief whilest the Transportes are Getting round Suffer as Little as Posable any Communication between the Inhabitants & Soldiers and between ye former and Mr Maugers People and above all things Keep from their Knoledge the News relating to General Braddock.
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Immediately on the arival of Colo Winslow at Mines who I would have Quarter his people Immediatly round ye Church or in it if he Should think that Most Safe & Convenient Let Capt Croxton return with his Detachment to this Place and if you think your own Proper Detachment too weak afterwards to do the Duty you will have on your hands apply to Colo Winslow for the assistance of Forty or Fifty Men. Send heither by the first Safe Conveyance Either Land or water both the Priests and take up and put in Confinement any Inhabitant you Exspect to be an Haranger or an Intreiguer amongst the People. Such fellows are Dangerous at this time and Suffer from the Inhabitants in General not the Least Insolence Particularly after the Arival of Colo Winslow but when they behave amiss punish them at your Discretion. if you have Ocation to Confine any of the Inhabitants within your Forte Keep a watchful Eye over them and order their Familys or Neighbours to Feed them During their Confinement otherwise they will be Exspensive to the Publick which as it is unnecessary I can by no Means allow of.
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Show these Memorandums to Colo Winslow as Soon as he arives take an oppertunity of Acquainting the Inhabitants that if any attempt by Indians or others to Destroye or otherwise Molest his Majestys Troops, you have my orders to take an Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth and in Shorte Life for Life from the nearest Nighbours where Such Mischiefe is Performed, if the Mouth of Chibaaicadie River Could be Visited before Colo Winslows arival it would be well afterwards there Can be no Difficulty in doing it
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