The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly

622 COMMONS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 4, 1760–AUGUST 6, 1760Blessing of God, if properly improved may be a Mean of restoring and establishingPeace with the Indians, upon a sure and lasting Foundation.The 10th Day of June 1760.William Bull.And then the Messenger withdrew.And Mr. Speaker read the Message to the House.Read also Colonel Grant’s Letter to the Lieutenant Governor, datedCamp near Fort Prince George 4th June 1760. 53And the following Address was drawn in answer to the said Message, vizt.May it please Your Honour,We return Your Honour our most sincere and hearty Thanks for so earlycommunicating to us the agreable Information which you had received ofthe Success of His Majesty’s Troops in their first Operation in the CherokeeNation: And give us leave, Sir, to congratulate You also upon this importantEvent, which, with Your Honour we hope, by the Blessing of God, if properlyimproved may be a mean of restoring and establishing Peace with theIndians upon a firm and lasting Foundation.Ordered, That the said Address be presented to the Lieutenant Governorby Mr. Wragg and Mr. Guerard.Three Certificates for the Service of the late Expedition, which weredelivered last Saturday to be presented to the House were read; vizt.One in favour of John Templeton for a Waggon and Horses impressed.Another in favour of Captain John Skene for two Horses lost.And the third in favour of Samuel Boone for a Horse impressed.Ordered, That the said Certificates be referred to the Consideration ofthe Committee who were appointed to audit the Public Accounts: And thatthey do examine the said Certificates and report their Opinion thereuponto the House.The following Papers were according to Order presented to the Houseand read, vizt.His Excellency Governor Lyttelton’s Warrant, dated Camp at SaludeeOld Town 19th November 1759, for issuing £6:10 to each Serjeant, Corporaland private Man, belonging to the respective Batallions of ColonelsChevillette, Powell and Richardson, in part of their Pay.Account of Seven thousand Pounds received by Joseph Nutt of Jacob53Grant to Bull, June 4, 1760, Council Journal, June 10, 1760. Printed texts appear in the SouthCarolina Gazette, June 10, 1760, and in Christopher Gadsden, Observations on Two Campaigns Against theCherokee Indians . . . by Philopatrios (Charleston, 1762), pp. 77–80, microfiche reprint in Clifford K. Shipton,ed., Early American Imprints (Worcester, MA, 1956–83), nos. 9242–43.