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both by Land & water. it is by that rout (if at all) the Inhabitants Convey away their Cattle and Effects, if the warren Proceeds to Chignecto with ye Dispatches I now Send Capt Goreham with one of your officers and Some Men may Make an Excursion with the whale Boats to Chibnaidie, if the Warren be not with you when he arives he must [go] in the whale Boats for Chignecto with a part of his Detachment as you will Perceive by his orders.
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CHARLES LAWRANCE.
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Halifax Augst 9th 1755.
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A True Coppy
MURRAY.
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To Capt Hodgskins of the Schooner Grayhound & Capt Preble of the Sloop Yorke, —— you are Directed to Come to Sail with your Vessels and to Proceed to Mines there to land the Troops you have on Board agreable to Such orders as you may Receive from me or the Commanding officer of the Party. or the Signals that may be Given by Capt Adams of the Schooner Warren.
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am yr Humble Servt
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JOHN WINSLOW.
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Pisiquid Augst 18th 1755.
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Augth 18th. At arived [at] the Entrance of the River Gaspereau and Lodgd on Board our respective Vessels. The People all in health Save one of Hobbs Sick, a Fever.
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FORTE EDWARD, THE 18TH OF AUGST 1755.
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May it Please your Excellency
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I arived at this place this Morning having Two Days passage from Chignecto with a part of four Companys of our Battallion the other part where out on Detachmts I have Sent yr Excellency A a return. on my arival I Finde by Capt Murray that it is your Pleasure that I with the Party be posted at Mines. Shall Depart for it the next Ebb. as to our Stores have nither Powder nor ball but what is in our Catherage Boxes nor Spare Flints and
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