The Maryland gazette

The Maryland gazette

Annapolis Printed by Jonas Green ... 1745-1813

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Library has no. 488 (Sept. 12, 1754)(L1997F160): includes a notice, signed in type by George Washington, offering the reward of a "pistole" for a deserter returned to quarters (in special clam-shell box; shelved with bound folios); no. 508 (Jan. 30, 1755)(L2002F237): includes a speech by Arthur Dobbs, Governor of North Carolina, to his state's colonial assembly concerning the French activities in Virginia. He calls upon the assembly to organize troops and supplies to aid that state, whose forces under George Washington had suffered setbacks at the hands of the French and their Indian allies; no. 513 (Mar. 6, 1755)(L2013F47): several messages and letters (from Maryland and South Carolina) dealing with the need to provide for "the common security of his Majesty's dominions in America," including some disagreements about how to fund said security and "Extract of a letter from an officer at Wills's Creek to his friend here [in Philadelphia]," regarding the approach of "a large body of French and Indians." He writes "we have put ourselves in a proper posture of defence to receive them, and make no doubt, if they do come, that they will meet with a warmer reception than they imagine."

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