Agreeable to an Act of Assembly lately passed, You are hereby ordered to furnish all your working Slaves in order to put Fort Cornwallis in a State of Defence, the Enemy having invaded this Province in a formidable manner; Of this, fail not at your Peril.

Thos. BROWN Lt. Col. Commt.
K Troops at Augusta

To Mr. John DOUGLASS

Great Britain, Public Record Office, Audit Office, Class 13, Volume 34, folio 357.

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