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the Provinces hanged five of them on a tree, even as a shepherd hangeth a dog for worrying the sheep.

14. Now the fervants of the king of Britain were encamped on one fide of the river Savannah, and the people of the Provinces under Lincoln, a chief captain, were on the other fide thereof, even at the Black Swamp oppofite to Augufta.

15. And Lincoln fent a chief captain whofe aame was A^h,* and fifteen hundred of the fervants of the great Sanhedrim, paffed over the river, and they encamped at Briar Creek.

16. But It came to pafs that Prevost, cap- tain of the fervants of the king of Britain, came upon them at unawares, and many of them fltd; and feven fcore and fifty of the people were flain, and one hundred and fix- ty-two were taken captive.

1 7. And Moultrie^ knowing of a certainty


 * General Ash.