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He then wrought me for answer, he was not a plunderer but, that he took those Negroes by order of Gen. Sumter & he had them then in possession & would not deliver them to any order but Gen. Sumter. I then sent Colo. James Posstell with a party to arrest him for that offence & for disobedience of military orders, to be in camp a certain day to be tried by a court of inquiry. This he disobeyed as the other orders, on which by authority & power delegated to me by Gov. Rutledge to brake & make officers in my Brigade, I suspended Colo. Marshall & made James Posstell, Colo. Kimbol, Lt. Colo. Thomas, Major, who obey my orders and had their proportionable men in the field under my command and continued to until that Regiment was put under Gen. Sumter by a new arrangement of the Brigade & had I not been called to the banks of the Santee River, I would have had Colo. Marshall as a prisoner for taking said Negroes from Silvester Dunn & McCoy & disobeying every order I gave him, who was immediately under my command & should have kept him as a plunderer until released by Superior power. & this the deponent declares to be the truth & nothing but the truth--so help me God. 29th April 1790 (signed) Francis Marion N. B. That Silvester Dunns, Samuel McCoy & Samuel Montgomery plantations was covered by A strong party commanded by Capts. Nelson & Armstrong on the side of Camden, at the time I covered on the side of Georgetown & Santee. Done under my command & Orders. 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