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You are requested to s I recommend to you to keep send
out two ^[?] & expert men, to reconoitre [sic] round the frontier settlement
for a few days of your county for a few days, with
instructions not to commit any violence or do any injury
on to any indian or indians, that ^may appear in a peaceable ^and friendly manner,
in the mean time I shall dispatch an express into the
nation to in order to obtain what information I was
On the subject of the murder - should any ^further Occurences
of an alarming nature hape take place, you are to
protect your county the best possible manner in your
power, and communicate to me thereon, in the most
Speedy manner and shortest way -

I have the honor to be
your most obed^t. serv.^t

P. S. present my thanks to the men who
turned out on the alarm, and let them
know if in my power they shall be
rewarded -

Col. Wear

Letter to Col. Wear

(Copy)

5 March 1797

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