and spare us the pain of a second departure from kindness to our captives confident that commiseration to our prisoners is the only possible motive, to which can be candidly ascribed, in the present actual circumstances of the war, the advice we are now about to give; the board does advise the Governor to send Lieutenant Governor Hamilton, Captain Lamothe and Philip Dejean, to Hanover court house, there to remain at large, within certain reasonable limits, taking their parole in the usual manner. The Governor orders accordingly. ARCH: BLAIR, C. C. Ordered, that Major John Hay be sent, also, under parole, to the same place. [NOTE C.] ARCH: BLAIR, C. C. In Council, October 8, 1779. The Governor is advised to take proper and effectual measures for knowing, from time to time, the situation and treatment of our prisoners by the enemy, and to extend to theirs, with us, a like treatment, in every circumstance; and, also, to order to a proper station, the prison ship fitted up on recommendation from Congress, for the reception and confinement of such prisoners of war, as shall be sent to it. ARCH: BLAIR, C. C. [NOTE D.] [After letter XVII. in the MS. is inserted the following memorandum.] Female Contributions, in aid of the war, probably in 1780. Mrs. Sarah Cary, of Scotchtown, a watch-chain, cost £7 sterling, Mrs. Ambler, five gold rings, Mrs. Rebecca Ambler, three gold rings, Mrs. Griffin, of Dover, ten half joes, Mrs. Anne Ramsay, (for Fairfax) one half joe, three guineas, three pistereens, one bit. Do. for do. paper money, bundle No. 1, twenty thousand dollars, No. 2, twenty seven thousand dollars, No. 3, fifteen thousand dollars, No. 4, thirteen thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars and one third. Mrs. Lewis, (for Albemarle) £1559 8s. paper money, Mrs. Weldon, £39 18s. new, instead of £1600, old paper money, Mrs. Blackburn, (for Prince William) seven thousand five hundred and six dollars, paper money, Mrs. Randolph, the younger, of Chatsworth, eight hundred dollars. Mrs. Fitzhugh and others, £558. [NOTE E.] Lord Cornwallis's letter to Lieutenant Colonel Nisbet Balfour, Commander at Ninety Six. I have the happiness to inform you, that on Wednesday the 16th instant, I totally defeated General Gates's army. One thousand were killed and wounded, about eight hundred taken prisoners. We are in possession of eight pieces of brass cannon, all they had in the field, all their ammunition wagons, a great number of arms, and one hundred and thirty baggage wagons: in short, there never was a more complete victory. I have written to Lieutenant Colonel Turnbull, whom I sent to join Major Johnson on Little river, to push on after General Sumpter to the Waxhaws, whose detachment is the only collected force of rebels in all this country. Colonel Tarlton is in pursuit of Sumpter. Our loss is about three hundred killed and wounded, chiefly of the thirty-third regiment and volunteers, of Ireland. I have given orders that all the inhabitants of this province, who have subscribed and taken part in this revolt, should be punished with the greatest rigour; also, that those who will not turn out, may be imprisoned, and their whole property taken from them, and destroyed. I have also ordered that satisfaction should be made for their estates, to those who have been injured and oppressed by them. I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be immediately hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district in which you command, and that you will obey, in the strictest manner, the directions I have given in this letter, relative to the inhabitants of this country. CORNWALLIS. August, 1780. MY LORD, [NOTE F.] TO LORD CORNWALLIS. Portsmouth, Virginia, November 4, 1780. I have been here near a week, establishing a post. I wrote to you to Charleston, and by another messenger, by land. I cannot hear, for a certainty, where you are: I wait your orders. The bearer is to be handsomely rewarded, if he brings me any note or mark from your Lordship. A. L. INDEX. A. Adams John, letters to, 231, 243, 245, 259, 263, 267, 270, 303, Asquith Lister, letters to, 314, 324, 366, 397; case of, 356. B. Bannister J. junior, letter to, 345. Barclay Thomas, heads of instructions to, 305; heads of enquiry Bellini Mr. letter to, 326. Briet Monsieur, letter to, 255. Buchanan and Hay Messrs. letters to, 272, 437. C. Carmichael William, letters to, 241, 284, 347, 350. Carr Peter, letter to, 285. Cary A. letter to, 395. Castries M. de, letter to, 265. Chastellux General, letter to, 228. Clarke G. R. letter of, to the Governor of Virginia, 451. report to, 378. Coinage, Notes on a, for the United States, see Unit of Money. Crimes and punishments, a bill for proportioning of, 120. |