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Council of officers was held on the 25th of June
when it was resolved that your Memorialist
who was then a lieutenant Colonel should march
with a body of the Militia to the frontier of Clinch
which he immediately did and continued in
actual Service about three weeks when it appeared
an expedition against the Indian Towns was
resolved on and although he was not in the
Field again till the twelfth of August yet during
the intermediate time he was chiefly employed
in promoting the Service so as to negleet his own
private affairs. That William Preston Esquire by
order of Lord Dunmore immediately wrote his
Officers directing them how to Conduct themselves
on that alarming occasion that from that time
to the last of October he was chiefly employed
in the Service of the Country and was at considerable
expense that the said William Preston from
the time of the Expeditions being set on foot was
employed therein that afterwards continued
to exert himself in promoting the Expedition
and often did the duty of a Contractor as well as
that of an Officer. That Arthur Campbell Esquire
was the oldest Captain on Holstons River and Clinch
which
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