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13. Now Cornivallis boafted of the vidory that he had gained, and fent forth a written paper, wherein he invited the inhabitants to join the fervants of the king, promifmg par- don and favour to fuch as had revolted from the king, if they had made their fubmilTion before the twentieth day of the next month; being the fourth month, in the year of the Chriflian Hegira, one thoufand feven hun- dred and eighty-one.

14. Notwithftanding Cornivallis and the men of Britain, had gotten the vidory of Nathaniel and the people of the Provinces; yet he was not eafy, but was troubled in his mind.

15. Now there was an officer, and a fervant of the king of Britain, who fojourned in Wilmington, a town in the Northern pro- vince, even in Carolina: this man uas to have fupplicd and affiiled Cornivallis and the men of Britain, but the fear of the armed men of Columbia fell upon him, and prevent- ed him.