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Summary
Letter from Robert Carter to the Northern Neck Militia Officers, February 16, 1723
Robert Carter writes to the Northern Neck Militia Officers, February 16, 1723, to enclose a copy of the Governor's order (not present) to initiate a recent law regarding the the militia, and requring the officers to send him lists of the men under their commands.
Letter from Robert Carter to the Northern Neck Militia Officers, February 16, 1723
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General Order
[Corotoman,] Lancaster County, [Virginia]
Feby the 16th 1723
Sir,
The Governor having been pleased
to honour me with his Commission
to be Colonel & Lieutenant of the several
counties of the Northern Neck and
having lately sent me his order to
cause the late Law for the regula=
=tion of the Militia forthwith to
be put in Execution, I do therefore
herewith send to you a copy of the
said order hereby giving you directi=
=ons with the greatest expedition
to comply with the same in all
its parts and to return to me lists
of all the Militia under your
command according to the [ . . . ]
scheme to the end I may be able
to transmit the same to the Governor
in obedience to his Precept
I am, Sir, your most
humble servant
NOTES
Source copy consulted:
Minor-Blackford Papers, James Monroe Law Office and Museum, Fredericksburg, Virginia. These texts are all nineteenth-century copies. Apparently there was in existence a letter book of Robert Carter's -- now lost -- from which the unknown copyist recorded these texts. As they are the only texts, the punctuation and "corrections" obviously supplied by the copyist have been retained.
The names of Robert Carter's home and colony have been added for clarity to the draft letter.
This text revised August 6, 2009.