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' attended fo far as the State of matters with you in fuch a 

 1 tranfa6tion will admit. You are with all poffible fpeed 

 £ to take care that the Plymouth Forces both Englifli and 

 1 Indians under your Command be fixed and ready, and 

 ' the firft opportunity of Wind & Weather, to go on 

 ' board fuch VefTels as are provided to tranfport you and 

 ' them to Cafco, where if it fhall pleafe God you arrive, 

 ' you are to take under your care & command the Com- 

 1 panies of Capt. Nathanael Hall, and Capt. Simon Wil- 

 i lard, who are ordered to attend your Command, whom 

 ' together with the Plymouth Forces, and fuch as from time 

 4 to time may be added unto you; you are to improve in 

 ' fuch way as you fhall fee meet, for the difcovering, 

 ' purfuing, fubduing and deftroying the faid Common En- 

 ' emy, by all opportunities you are capable of; alwayes 

 ' intending the preferving any of the near Towns from 

 i incurfions, and deftru6tion of the Enemy, yet chiefly 

 k improving } r our men for the finding and following the 

 ' laid Enemy abroad, and if poffible to find out & attach 

 ' their head quarters and principal Randezvouz, if you find 

 k you are in a rational capacity of fo doing; the better to 

 ' inable you thereto, We have ordered two men of War 

 " Sloops, and other fmall Veffels for tranfportation, to attend 

 k you, for fome confiderable time. You are to fee that 

 ' your Souldiers Arms be always fixt, and that they be 

 ' furnifhed with Ammunition, Provifions and other necef- 

 i faries, that fo they may be in a readinefs to repel and 

 k attach the Enemy. In your purfute you are to take 



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