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Sir:

Agreeable to your directioins to me, I have sent dispatches to every Col. in the Edenton Brigade, but have not got the returns

from all the Counties, notwithstanding the Col. was fully acquainted that the returns ought to have been at Kingston by the fourth this month. What returns I have been able to get, after waiting five or six days longer than I should have done, I have sent by Capt. Russel. You will please to observe that there wants a few Commissions for the County of Camden. You will see enclosed, agreeable to the Court martial returns. The Commissions you'll please to send by Capt. Russel. I should take it as a peculiar favor if I could get the last Acts of Assembly sent by him, as we are entirely at a loss to know how the men is to be drafted; the number of every County's Continental Soldiers enlisted; send with the returns of the Brigade.

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