The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

234 WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS. [AET. 25.
It will not be in my power to be in Williamsburg by
the 22d, as your Honor desires; but as soon after as I
can, I certainly will. I shall leave orders with Colonel
Stephen to march this garrison to Fort Loudoun, as
soon as it is relieved, which cannot be before this express may return, and then your further orders may be
received. We have no advice of Dagworthy's marching, though orders were sent to him.
I shall order all the country's stores to be carried to
Fort Loudoun, and the two companies on Patterson's
Creek to be posted on the Branch, to complete the
number that was designed for that place. I have ordered a particular return of the provisions to be made
out, and Colonel Stephen to take Captain Dagworthy's
receipt for the quantity left.
We have been at a good deal of unavoidable expense
and trouble to furnish the Indians with such things as
they wanted. Some hostile Indians killed two. Catawbas on Thursday last, at about one hundred and fifty
yards from the fort, and seventy from a sentry, and
made their escape, though pursued by other Catawbas
and near two hundred men. And the day before yesterday, two soldiers were killed and a third taken prisoner, as they were coming to this place from the fort
below. The rest of the party, being ten in number,
with Captain Waggener among them, made their escape.
The enclosed remonstrance I have just received, and
think it expedient to send it to your Honor, that you
may know the temper and disposition of the troops.
As I expect to be with you in two or three days after
the express, I think it needless to add any thing but an
without precedent, and peculiar to Maryland alone.- -Ibid. for Februayj,
1758. Governor Dinwiddie, in his usual way, declared it " inconsistent
and unmannerly in the Maryland Assembly to make any hesitation, or to
dispute his Lordship's power." —Letter to Governor Sharpe.