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were fet up as in time pad; and there was reft and quietnefs in the land.
 * >rovince of Georgia j and the king's courts

CHAP. XLir.

General Wayne^s successful expedition at Stcney Point — ibe forty after being in possession of the Americans a few days^ is evacuated^ and re* posted by the British^

JL HEN it came to pafs, in the one thou- fand feven hundred and feventy-ninth year of the Chriftian Hegira, in the feventh month, and on the fifteenth day of the month j a chief captain of the hod of Columbia, went againfl a flrorig held, called by the people of the Pro- vinces, Stoney Point.

2. The name of the captain, was Wayne, he was one of the worthies who followed af- ter George the chief captain, and his name was much fet by.

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