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Charlestown, June 21, 1775
SIR: By direction of the Committee, I enclose you two orders, by which you will be supplied with a quantity of ammunition, for the use of the two Regiments of Infantry in the service of the Colony; not doubting of your prudence, they, however, think it their duty to recommend that the greatest care be taken of it; and as, in a great degree, the new levies are strangers, and their principle not certainly known, they cannot but intimate, that they
I am, &c.
WM˙ H˙ DRAYTON,
Chairman of the Secret Committee.
To Colonel Moultrie.
South-Carolina Secret Committee of Col. Moultrie
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think it advisable, that no soldier should be placed sentry over, or have any thing to do relative to the ammunition, but such as are known friends to the liberties of America.