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DONALD McDONALD, ESQ˙, LATELY CHEATED BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN THE TORY ARMY BY GOVERNOUR MARTIN, TO BRIGADIER-GENERAL MOORE.
Head-Quarters, February19, 1776.
SIR: I herewith send the bearer, Donald Morrison, by advice of the Commissioners appointed by his Excellency Josiah Martin, and in behalf of the Army now under my command, to propose terms to you as friends and countrymen. I must suppose you unacquainted with the Governour' s Proclamation, commanding all his Majesty' s loyal subjects to repair to the King' s royal standard, else I should have imagined you would, ere this, have joined the King' s Army, now engaged in his Majesty' s service. I have therefore thought it proper to intimate to you, that, in case you do not, by twelve o' clock to-morrow, join the Royal standard, I must consider you as enemies, and take the necessary steps for the support of legal authority.
I beg leave to remind you of his Majesty' s speech to his Parliament, wherein he offers to receive the misled with
I have the honour to be, in behalf of the Army, sir, your most obedient humble servant,
DONALD MCDONALD.
To the Commanding Officer at Rockfish.
P˙ S˙ His Excellency' s Proclamation is herewith enclosed.
Letter from General McDonald to General Moore
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tenderness and mercy, from motives of humanity. I again beg of you to accept the preferred clemency. I make no doubt, but you will show the gentleman sent on this message every possible civility; and you may depend, in return, that all your officers and men which may fall into our hands, shall be treated with an equal degree of respect.