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21. For the army of the people of the Pro- vinces, had no money, except the money of the great Sanhedrim, which was made of fil- thy rags, and the hulband men loathed to fee it.
22. The gold and the filver, which the fer- vants of the king had in abundance; this it was that allured them! for this they fold the choice 1 imbs from the flock, the bullocks and the fatted calves from the flails, the princi- pal wheat and the fine flour; yea, they ven- tured their lives in purfuit thereof.
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General Green divides his force. The division under General Morgan goes to the Westsrn ex- treniiiy of South Carolina , defeats Tarleton at the Cozvpens,
jTiND after thefe things it came to pafs, that Nathaniel divided the hofl into two bands, one band v/as commanded by himfelf; and
