Subject: Memorial of Daniel Pepper Esquire 17 January 1759
Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 01:12:42 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 04:15:38 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Wednesday the 17th Day of January 1759.

"... A Memorial of Daniel Pepper Esquire was presented to the House and read
setting forth,

That his Excellency the Governor having been pleased to nominate and Commission
the Memorialist on the 14th Day of September 1756 to go as Agent to the Creek
Nation to negotiate several important Affairs with the Indians, he being then
informed that an Appointment of £14 per Diem was made by Law of this Province
for such Person as should be sent by the Commander in Chief on that Service by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Majesty's Council, and relying intirely
on the good Faith of the said Law, not in the least doubting but Provision would
be made for him accordingly did cheerfully undertake the Service,
notwithstanding it was at that time believed to be attended with no small Danger
from the ill humour the Indians were supposed to be then in, occasion'd by some
of their People having been killed on Ogechee, and therefore His Excellency the
Governor with the Advice of His Majesty's Council thought proper to send a Guard
of Six Men with the Memorialist and on the 23d of the same Month set out on his
Journey to the Creek Country, where his whole Time was taken up in transacting
the Business he was sent upon till the 12th Day of June 1757 when he left that
Country and accompanied by several of the Chiefs of the said Nation and
Chickesaws arrived in Charles Town the 8th Day of July following.

Thus the Memorialist was actually employed in the Service of the Government 298
Days, which at the Rate aforesaid amount to £4172, but the Memorialist to his
great Grief and Misfortune found that when the last Tax-Law was passed a
Provision of £2000 only was made for him, which said Provision he can very ill
bear. That he discharged the trust reposed in him by the Governor, according to
the best of his Ability and with the utmost Care, Assiduity and Fidelity, and
therefore praying Provision be made to discharge the Residue of the Sum due to
him.

Ordered that the said Memorial be referred to the Consideration of the Committee
to whom the Accounts of the Public Creditors are referred...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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