ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS



the Money has little chance of collecting the AMen without your
indulgence. This places him in rather an uncertain situation,
but I trust in full confidence to your patronage of him. Capt
Rogers has between sixty  seventy men enough to make up two
troops of horse, which I think the law limits to 30 or thereabouts.
A considerable proportion of these were drafts,  not recruits; so
that it will be in your power to assign to whom you please the
residue, after Capt. Rogers's troop is compleated. But I will add
no more, trusting to your Friendship to advise  direct him; and
considering that He is but a youth, without parent or adviser. May
I, without expecting anything unreasonable hope this from you
If not, then I must beg you will excuse the freedom, by attributing
it to the solicitude of a parent about to part with a favourite Son.
Dear Sir, farewell! and believe it as a certain truth that I am with
great esteem  affection,
                                 Your mo obedt Servt
                                          C. M. THRUSTON1
FLOYD'S STATION 7 April 80
  N. B. My Son resolves to engage in the service during the War,
and waits to come down with Capt Rogers
                                                    C M T.
[Endorsed:J Co' Thruston


PETITION TO CLARK FOR THE DEFENSE OF CAHOKIA, April 11, 1780.2
                   [Draper MISS., 50J27.-D. S.]
  A L'Honnorable George Rogers Clark Equier Colonel et Com-
mandant en Chef des troupes de l'Etat de Virginie dans le Comt6
des Illinois et ses dependances c c c

                        [Translation.]
  To the Honorable George Rogers Clark, Esquire, Colonel and
Commander in Chief of the troops of the State of Virginia in
the County of Illinois  its dependencies.

1 Charles Mynn Thruston, Jr., married Frances Eleanor Clark, the youngest
sister of Colonel Clark.
2 Printed also in Alvord, Cahokia Records (I. Ii. C., 1X.)., 530.



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