1To George Washington from Horatio Sharpe, 27 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
This serves to acknowledge the Receit of Your Letter by Mr Fell & also to inclose You a Copy of a Deposition that was made by a Sergeant who was sent some time ago to apprehend the Deserters that You say are harboured in Baltimore County. Could Mr Fell have named the Deserters I would have desired One of the Provincial Magistrates to issue a special Warrant for apprehending them, but as he did...
2Enclosure I: Deposition, 20 April 1757 (Washington Papers)
Copy. Baltimore County ss On the 20th Day of April 1757. Came Richard Davis Serjeant in Captain Christopher Gist’s Company in the Virginia Regiment before Me the Subscriber One of His Lordship’s Justices of the Peace for the afd County of Baltimore Who being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth & saith that on or about the fifth Day of February 1756 he was enlisted in...
3Enclosure II: Horatio Sharpe’s Proclamation, 26 July 1757 (Washington Papers)
To All and Every of the Officers both Civil & Military in Baltimore County Given at Annapolis [Md.] the 26th day of July. 1757. It having been represented to me by Ensign Fell that there are many Deserters from the Virginia Regiment at this time harboured & concealed by sundry of the Inhabitants of Your County, and Colonel Washington having informed me that he has sent Mr Fell to search for...