| Description | On board the "Tamar" in Rebellion Road, abstract of letter number 7, gives an account of the necessity he was under "from the violences, insults and outrages offered to him and the other servants of Government", to retire on board H M S "Tamar" in the harbour
Enclosure, 1 Sep 1775, Charlestown, Thomas Knox Gordon, Edward Savage, Charles Matthews Cosslett, John Fewtrell and William Gregory, Judges, Justices of South Carolina, J Simpson, Attorney General, and James Trail C C P to Lord William Campbell, lay before him some late facts by which they are involved in their present difficult, dangerous and critical situation and the rule of conduct they apprehend they must adopt under the circumstances, quote the association they were asked to sign by order of the Provincial Congress, reasons for refusing it, proceedings taken against them in consequence, being now prisoners they have resolved to decline the execution of their respective offices until they can resume them with the powers and dignity becoming their office |