Orders to Captain Francis Marion

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You are to proceed, with all expedition, with yours and Captain Huger' s Companies, to Dorchester, to re-enforce the Troops there, and to take special care in guarding and defending the cannon, gunpowder, and publick records at that place; you are to take the command of the whole of the Troops at that place till further orders; you are to apply to the Committee at Dorchester for a sufficient number of Negroes in the publick service to remove the cannon lying near the water-side to a spot more safe and convenient, near the fort or barracks, &c.

WILLIAM MOULTRIE.

Charlestown, November 19, 1775.