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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Letter from the North Carolina Council of Safety to the Virginia Committee of Safety
North Carolina. Council of Safety
July 16, 1776
Volume 11, Pages 315-316

LETTER TO THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY OF VIRGINIA.
[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

16th July 1776

Gentlemen

It appears by dispatches from Charles Town that the Indians

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have actually commenced Hostilities so that our presence at Salisbury is unnecessary, having given General Rutherford the necessary orders. Any dispatches you may have for this Board you'l please direct to Whitfields Ferry in Dobbs County by the way of Halifax, C. H.