on my plantation, I got away, avoiding to say more, my mind being fully made up. I find the letter now among my papers, and reading it in my old age, renew the memory of the satisfaction it gave me when young.
Williamsburg, March 2, 1755.
Sir: The General, having been informed by friends that you expressed some desire to make the campaign, but that you declined it upon some disagreeableness that you thought might arise from the regulations of command, has ordered me to acquaint you that he will be very glad of your company in his family, by which all inconveniences of that kind will be obviated.
I shall think myself very happy to form an acquaintance with a person so universally esteemed, and shall use every opportunity of assuring you how much I am
Your obedient servant,
Robert Orme,
Aide-de-camp.
I have no doubt that Colonel Peyton was
the gentleman who, knowing my wishes,
had suggested my appointment. I was considered
by some to have been imprudent at
Fort Necessity, and the governor, because
