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the Counties of Davidson & Sumner, that nothing can give Security to them but to carry the War into the Enemy's own Country. Your Excellency will therefore please to advise or direct me on the subject, should self-preservation and the distress & Cries of a bleeding Country make it absolutely necessary to preserve it, from ruin & Destruction and compel us to do it before we can obtain the consent of the Executive, I shall hope the necessity will plead our excuse, & we may thereby not incur the displeasure of them or any Individual in the State. I flatter myself that the remoteness of our Situation plead our excuse, whilst I have the honor to be.

Yr. Exlcy's mo Obedt. Servt.,

ANTHONY BLEDSOE.

SIR:

HON. JAMES WHITE TO GOV. CASWELL.

(From Executive Letter Book.)

FAYETTEVILLE, June 1st, 1787.

As I am under the necessity of troubling you for your Warrant for that part of my Salary which remains due to me for going & returning from the Delegation, and for your Warrant also to enable me to proceed next Nov. as the Honbl. the Legislature was pleased to appoint; I take the liberty to trouble you, at the same time, with some dispatches which are the result of my tour to the Creek Nation, they may serve to throw some light on Indian affairs in that quarter, if they should be an object of your attention. For this reason I have left them unsealed which defect I flatter myself you will be good enough to supply and Transmit the Papers by the very Earliest opportunity to Congress. As Superintendent of Indian Affairs I should have informed your Excellency that I was instructed by Congress to promise their aid & protection to the Southern States, when ever their Indian affairs should require it, but that the Tranquility which the State enjoyed made such Information not Immediately Necessary. I have the Honor to be.

Your Excellency's obedt. & Humble Servt.,

JAMES WHITE.

SIR:

GOV. CASWELL TO MAJOR THOMAS EVANS.

(From Executive Letter Book.)

KINSTON, 2d June, 1787.

Your Letter of the 21st May by Mr. Markland, I have now before me, and I confess it gives me much uneasiness to find it dated at Richmond and to learn the causes of your delay.

I send you Commissions to supply the places of those who have actually resigned & also others to be filled in occasionally where vacancies happen. As I have nothing more in view than the good of the service you are engaged in I will not take upon me the appointment of a single officer, but leave that entirely to you, not doubting but you will be careful in appointing such as will be agreeable to yourself & the other officers under your Command, & after that attention is paid I think the most you mention is you can have your choice of the officers not receiving his Commission until he actually enlists the number of Soldiers which you shall stipulate is likely to produce good effect, but above all let me entreat you to pursue such measures as will get your men to the destined Rendezvous in the speediest most expeditious manner. Colo. Bledsoe has been a long time waiting on Holston to assist you with guides and in procuring provisions & other necessaries, I fear his patience before this is worn out, if so and he has gone to Cumberland you will miss him much as his general acquaintance there and on the way and with the Indians with his known attachment to the business you will be upon renders him the most proper person for your dependence and relyance on; I wish you to write him and let him know your movements on all occasions. Genl. Shelby & a number of other Gentln. in that Country I know will assist you all in their power, but it is the Interest of Colo. Bledsoe as well as his inclination to encourage & assist in this business. I have furnished your Contractor with Warrts. now to amount of one thousand pounds; the expences of the necessary expresses he must pay observing to take the Expresses rect. not only for the sum but the particular service he has performed for the same, indeed he cannot be too particular in his vouchers on all occasions; I am sure it will give more satisfaction to the General Assembly if each voucher is so expressive as to explain itself or rather the charge raised from it.

I have considered the 14 section of the Act for raising Troops for the defence of Davidson County & am of opinion that the officers of the Battalion may proceed to the appointment of the officers of the Cavalry from among themselves or others and in case of the appointment falling on those of the Infantry their places to be supplied by other appointments, else the remaining Troops will not be officered sufficiently, one hundred and seventy-six Privates being too great a No. in my Judgment to be Conveniently and properly managed by two sets of officers. Pray let me have your return and write me your progress by all opportunities.

I wish you success in all your enterprises and am very respectfully, Sir,

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I am honored with yours of the first Inst. and thank you for the perusal of your dispatches for Genl. Knox, they shall be closed and sent to the post office, with some dispatches I have for Congress, in a day or two.

The Warrant you required at Fayetteville I made out there & enclosed to you under the care of Colo. Rowan, but least you should not receive it, I now send you one of the same Tenor, date and no., with a note at foot directing the Treasurer to take up one only.

I also enclose herewith a Warrant for 8 months allowance towards your next year's service, this is agreeable to a late Act of Assembly which directs the payment to be made at least two months before the service commences.

I have the Honor to be, very respectfully Sir,

Your most obedt. Servant,

RICHARD CASWELL.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

SIR:

(From Executive Letter Book.)

STATE OF NO. CAROLINA, June 5th, 1787.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's letter, signed in Congress the 13th of April last, containing Resolutions recommending a repeal of all Acts and parts of Acts repugnant to the Treaty of Peace entered into between the United States of America and Great Britain, which I will take the earliest opportunity in my power of laying before the Legislature of this State, and I have not the smallest fear but the importance of the subject with the Cogent reasons assigned by Congress will have proper weight with that Assembly and produce the desired effect.

I have the Honor to be, with the greatest respect,

Sir, your most obed. Servant,

R. CASWELL.

GOV. CASWELL TO THE HON'BLE THE DELEGATES FOR NORTH CAROLINA IN CONGRESS.

(From Executive Letter Book.)

NO. CAROLINA, June 5th, 1787.

GENTLEMEN:

I had the Honor to receive your two letters of the 18th of April last, the one of them on the state of Politics & business before Congress which I sincerely thank you for and promise myself the pleasure of writing fully in answer at some future day.

The other by Mr. Stewart on the subject of our public Tobacco of which he has received at Washington 227,543 lb. net, which was more than his vessel could carry out, and I have not heard of the arrival of any other, I sent express to Colo. Whitaker and Colo. Rowan who have been attending at very Considerable expence to deliver the Tobacco at Edenton & Wilmington, but no vessels coming for it they have returned to their respective homes, not well pleased I presume at their disappointment, Especially as they are now out of their office & the season of the year has required their attention to their private concerns; enclosed is Mr. Stewart's receipt for the Tobacco which you will be pleased to obtain a Cr. for at the Treasury according to Contract; a duplicate of this receipt is sent to the Treasury Board.

The Journals of the Assembly are not yet printed & I have not been able to procure the Laws of last Session, when the Printer is pleased to furnish them they shall, with the Laws of the former Session, be forwarded to you.

I have the Honor to be, with Great respect & esteem, Gentlemen, Your most obedt. & humble servant,

R. CASWELL.

GOV. CASWELL TO THE HONBLE COMMISSIONERS OF THE BOARD

OF TREASURY.

GENTLEMEN:

(From Executive Letter Book.)

NORTH CAROLINA, June 5th, 1787.

I had the Honor of receiving some time past, your Letter of the 2d February enclosing a particular statement of the contingent expenditures of the United States from the 1st of January to the last Decr., 1786, which shall be laid before the legislature in their next Session. I have the Honor to be, with great respect, Gentlemen, Your most obedt. and very humble servant.

R. CASWELL.

GOV. CASWELL TO THE HONBLE COMMISSIONERS OF THE BOARD

OF TREASURY.

GENTLEMEN:

(From Executive Letter Book.)

NORTH CAROLINA, 5th June, 1787.

I have the honor to enclose herewith a receipt signed by Mr. Robert Stewart, agent for Messrs. Constable, Rucker & Co., for 227,543 lb. net Tobacco on accot. of this State, which please to pass to the Credit of the same in their accot. with the United States agreeable to the Contract entered into by the Delegates of this State with that

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