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No. 1.
SUMMONS to Major General LINCOLN,
10th April, 1780, with his Anſwer of the ſame
Date.
SI
IR Henry CLINTON, K. B. General and Commander in Chief of his
Majeſty's Forces, in the Colonies, laying on the Atlantic, from Novaa
Scotia, &c. &c. &c. and Vice-Admiral ARBUTHNOT, Commander
in Chief of his Majeſty's Ships in North-America, &c. &c. &c. regret
ting the Effuſion of Blood, and the Diſtreſſes which muſt now com.
mence, deem it conſonant to Humanity to warn the Town and Garriſon
of Charles-Town of the Havock and Deſolation with which they aro
threatened from the formidable Force ſurrounding them by Land and
Sea.
TOTUSIVU sozu
An Alternative is offered at this Hour to the Inhabitants of ſaving
their Lives and Property, (contained in the Town) or of abiding by the
fatal Conſequences of a Cannonade and Storm.
Should the Place in a fallacious Security, or its Commander in a warton
Indifference to the Fate of its Inhabitants delay the Surrender; or ſhould
Public Stores or Shipping be deſtroyed, the Reſentment of an exaſperated
Soldiery may intervene, but the ſame mild and compaſſionate Offer can
never be renewed.
The reſpective Commanders who hereby Summons the Town, do not
apprehend fo raſh a Part as further Reſiſtance will be taken; but rather
that the Gates will be opened and themſelves received with a Degree of
Confidence which will forbode farcher Reconciliation
No. II.
HEAD-QUARTERS, Charles-Town, April 10, 1780.
GENTLEMEN,
OTTA
I HAVE received your Summons of this Date --Sixty
Days have paſſed
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fince it has been known that your Intentions againſt this Town werd
hoſtile, in which, Time has been afforded to abandon it--but Duty and
Inclination point to the Propriety of ſupporting it to the laſt Extremity,
I have the Honour to be
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Your Excellency's humble Servant,
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B. LINCOLN
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Major General LINCOLN, to Sir Henry Clinton, K. B.
propoſing Articles of CAPITULATION, with Sir Henry
CLINTON'S Answer, and the ARTICLES of CAPITULATION.
ANSWER
No. III.
Charles-Town, April 21, 1780.
SIR
I AM willing to enter into the Confideration of Terms of Capitulation---
If ſuch can be obtained as are honourable for the Army, and ſafe for
the Inhabitants. I have to propoſe a Ceſſation of Hoftilities for fix Hours,
for the Purpoſe of digeſting ſuch Articles.
I have the Honour to be,
Your Excellency's obedient Servant,
(Signed) B. LINCOL N.
His Excellency Sir HENRY CLINTON.
No. IV.
Camp, before CHARLES-Town, April 21, 1780.
S IR
DMIRAL ARBUTHNOT, who commands the Fleet, fhould have
,
been addreſſed jointly with me upon this Occaſion.
As I wiſh to communicate with him, and as I give my Conſent to a
Ceſſation of Hoſtilities for fix Hours; 1 defire an Aid-de-Camp may paſs
to the Ships, with a Letter and my Requeſt that the Battery on JAMES-
ISLAND inay defift firing.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
(Signed) H. CLINTO N.
Major Gen. LINCOLN.
No. V
V.
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ARTICLES of CAPITULATION
propoſed by Major General LINCOLN.
Art. I. That all Acts of Hoſtility and Works ſhall ceaſe between the
Naval and Land Forces of Great Britain and America, in this State, until
the Articles of Capitulation ſhall be agreed or, figned, and executed, or
collectively rejected.
ART. II. That the Town, Forts, and Fortifications belonging to them
ſhall be furrendered to the Commander in Chief of the Britih Forces,
ſuch as they now ſtand.
ART. III. That the ſeveral Troops garriſoning the Town and Forts, in-
cluding the French and American Sailors, the French Invalids, the North-

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Carolina and South-Carolina Militia, and ſuch of the Charles-Town Mi-
litia as may chooſe to leave this place, ſhall have thirty-fix Hours to with-
draw to Lampriere's, after the Capitulation has been accepted and ſigned
on both Sides-and that thoſe Troops Chall retire with the uſual Honours
of War, and carry off during that 'lime their Arms, Field Artillery,
Ammunition, Baggage, and fuch of their Stores as they may be able to
tranſport.
ART. IV. That after the Expiration of the thirty-fix Hours mentioned
in the preceding Article, the Britiſh Troops before the Town ſhall take
Pofleſtion of it, and thoſe now at Wappctaw ſhall proceed to Fort Moultrie.
ART. V. That the American Ariny, thus collected at Lampriere's, ſhah
have ten Days, from the Expiration of the thirty-fix Hours before-men-
tioned, to march wherever General Lincoln may think proper to the Eaſt-
ward of Cooper-River, without any Movement being made by the Britiſh
Troops, or Part of them out of the Town, or Fort Moultrie.
ART. VI. That the Sick and Wounded of the American and French
Hoſpitals, with their Medicines, Stores, the Surgeons, and Director Gene
neral, fhall remain in the Town, and be ſupplied with the Neceſſaries re-
quifite, until Proviſion can be made for their Removal, which will be as
fpeedily as poſſible.
Art. VII. That no Soldier ſhall be encouraged to deſert, or permitted
to enliſt on either Side.
Art. VII. That the French Conſul, his Houſe, Papers, and other
moveable Property, ſhall be protected and untouched, and a proper Time
granted him for retiring to any Place that may afterwards be agreed upon
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between him and the Commander in Chief of the Britiſh Forces.
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Art. IX. That the Continental Ships of War, Providence, Boſton and
Ranger, now in this Harbour, with the French Ship of War the Adven-
ture, ſhall have Liberty to proceed to Sea, with the neceſſary Stores on
board, and go unmoleſted, the three former to Philadelphia, and the latter
to Cape-François, with the French Invalids mentioned in Article III.
TOTAL
ART. X. The Citizens ſhall be protected in their Perſons and Properties.
ART. XI. That twelve Months be allowed ſuch as do not chuſe to con-
tinue under the Britiſh Government, to diſpoſe of their Effects, real and
perſonal in the State, without any Moleſtation whatever; or to remove
Tuch Part thereof as they chooſe, as well as themſelves and Families, and
that during that Time, they or any of them may have it at their Option to
reſide occaſionally in Town or Country,
ART. XII. That the ſame Protection to their Perſons and Properties, and
the fame Time for the Removal of their Effects, be given to the Subjects
of France and Spain, reſiding amongſt us, as are required for the Citizens
in the preceding Articles.
Dated at Charles-Town, April 21, 3780
(Signed)
B. LINCOLN

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No. VI.
Sir HENRY CLINTON and Vice Admiral ARBUTHNOT to Ma.
jor General LINCOLN,
Camp, before CHARLES-Town, April 21, 1780, Eight o'clock at Night.
SIR,
We have in Anſwer to your thi
third Article (for we cannot proceed fur
ther) to refer you to our former Offer, as Terms which although
you cannot claim, we yet conſent to grant.
Theſe however muſt be accepted immediately, and reſponſible Hoſtages
of the Rank of Field Officers muſt be fent us as Securities that the Cuſtoms of
War on theſe Occaſions are ſtrictly adhered to, that no Perſon of the Gar-
riſon or Inhabitant be permitted to go out, nothing be removed or de-
ſtroyed, and no Ship or Veſſel paſs from the Town.
All dependent Poſts are to be included in the Surrender, and the Hof-
tages to be anſwerable for theſe as for the Town.
Your Anſwer is expected at Ten o'Clock, at which Hour Hoftilities will
commence again, unleſs our Offers are cloſed with.
basso ob (Signed) H. CLINTON.
MT. ARBUTHNOT.
Major General LINCOLN.
No. VII.
CH
Barbivo Camp, before CHARLES-Town, May 8, 1780,
to Tomas
SIR,
Ircumſtanced as I now am with reſpect to the Place inveſted, Huma-
nity only can induce me to lay within your Reach the Terms I had
determined ſhould not again be proffered. d liste
The Fall of Fort Sullivan, the Deſtruction (on the 6th Inſtant) of what re-
mained of your Cavalry, the critical Period to which our Approaches againſt
the Town have brought us, mark this as the Term of your Hopes of Suc-
cour, (could you ever have framed any) and as an Hour, beyond which,
Reſiſtance is Temerity,
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By this laſt Summons therefore I throw to your Charge whatever vin-
dictive Severity, exaſperated Soldiers may inflict on the unhappy People,
whom you devote by perfevering in a fruitleſs Defence.
I ſhall expect your Anſwer until Eight o'clock, when Hoftilities will
commence again, unleſs the Town be ſurrendered, &c. &c.
(Signed) H. CLINTO N.
Major General LINCOLN,
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bir bonamente CHARLES-Town, May 8; 1780.
SIR
bat antolat
YOUR Letter to me of this Date is now under Confideration—theré
are ſo many different Intereſts to be conſulted, that I have to propoſe
that Hoftilities do not again commence 'till Twelve.
(Signed)
B. LINCOL N.
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His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton.
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May 8, 17803
As more Time has been expended in conſulting the different Intereſts
than I ſuppoſed there would be, I have to requeſt that the Truce may
be continued until Four o'Clock,
(Signed)
B. LINCOLN.
His Excellency Sir Henry CLINTON.
No. X.
SI R,
May 8, 1780.
I Conſent that Hoftilities ſhall not again commence before the Hour of
Twelve, as you deſire.
I have the Honour to be,
SIR, &c.
(Signed
H. CLINTON
Major General LINCOLN.
No XI.
ARTICLES of CAPITULATION propoſed by Major
General LINCOLN.
Art. I. THAT all Acts of Hoftility and Work Thall ceaſe between the
Befiegers and Beſieged, until the Articles of Capitulation ſhall
be agreed on, ſigned, and executed, or collectively rejected.
Art. II. The Town and Fortifications ſhall be ſurrendered to the Com
mander in Chief of the Britiſh Forces, ſuch as they now ſtand.
Art. III. The Continental Troops and Sailors, with their Baggage, ſhall
be conducted to a Place to be agreed on, where they will remain Priſoners of
War, until exchanged-While Priſoners, they ſhall be fupplied with good
and wholeſome Proviſions, in ſuch Quantity as is ſerved out to the Troops of
his Britaninc Majeſty.

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ART. IV. The Militia now in Garriſon Thall be permitted to return to
their reſpective Homes, and be ſecured in their Perſons and Property.
Art. V. The Sick and Wounded ſhall be continued under the Care of
their own Surgeons, and be fupplied with Medicines, and ſuch Neceſſaries
as are allowed to the Britiſh Hoſpitals.
Art. VI. The Officers of the Army and Navy ſhall keep their Horſes,
Swords, Piſtols, and Baggage, which ſhall not be ſearched, and retain their
Servants.
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Art. VII. The Garriſon ſhall at an Hour appointed, march out with
Thouldered Arms, Drums beating, and Colours flying, to a Place to be agreed
on, where they will pile their Arms.
ART. VIII. That the French Conſul, his Houſe, Papers, and other
moveable Property, ſhall be protected and untouched, and a proper Time
granted to him for retiring, to any Place that may afterwards be agreed upon
between him and the Commander in Chief of the Britiſh Forces.
ART. IX. That the Citizens fhall be protected in their Perſons and Promo
perties.
ART. X. That a Twelve Months Time be allowed all ſuch as do not
chooſe to continue under the Britiſh Government, to diſpoſe of their Effects
teal and perſonal in the State, without any Moleſtation whatever, or to re-
move ſuch Part thereof as they chooie, as well as themſelves and Families
and that during that Time, they, or any of them, may have it as their Option
to reſide occaſionally in Town or Country,
ART. XI. That the ſame Protection to their perſons and Properties, and
the fame Time for the Removal of their Effects, be given to the Subjects of
France and Spain, as are required for the Citizens in the preceding Articles.
ART. XII. That a Veſſel be permitted to go to Philadelphia with the Geo
heral's Diſpatches, which are not to be opened,
(Signed)
B. LINCOLN.
Charles-Town, May 8, 1780
No. XL
SIR,
May 8, Half after Five.
AS I wiſh to communicate with the Admiral upon the Subject of your
laft Letter, I have to deſire that an Aid-de-Camp may be permitted
to paſs to the Fleet for that Purpoſe.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
(Signed) H. CLINTO N.
Major General LINCOLN,

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No. XII.
SIR,
May 8, Six o'Clock, F. M.
IN order to give the Articles of Capitulation which you have propoſed a
due Confideration, I propoſe that the Ceſſation of Hoſtilities ſhall
Continue until To-morrow Morning at Eight o'Clock, and that in the
mean Time every Thing ſhall continue in its preſent Situation. If you
accede to this, you will pleaſe to give me immediate Information of its
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SIR, Ecc
(Signed) H. CLINTON
Major General LINCOLN:
No. XIV.
SIR,
May 8.in 1782,
I Accede to your Propoſal
, that Hoſtilities fhall ceaſe until To-morront
Morning, Eight o'Clock, and that in the mean Time all Works ſhali
continue in their preſent State.
(Signed)
B. LINCOLN:
His Excellency Sir HunRY CLINTON.
No. XV .
YOU
SIR
May 8, Eight o'clock; P. M.
7OUR Anſwer to my Letter propoſing the Continuation of the Truce
until To-morrow Morning at Eight o'Clock, only accedes to the
Ceſſation of Hoftilities, and that in the mean Time all Works ſhall con:
tinue in their preſent State; but my Propoſition was, that until that Time
every Thing ihould continue in its preſent Situation; and my Meaning
was, that there ſhould not be an Attempt made to reinove any of the
Troops, or deſtroy any of the Ships, Stores or other Effects whatever, now
in the Town or Harbour. If your Idea is the fame, I muſt requeſt you will
expreſs yourſelf inore explicitly.
I am, SIR, &e.
(Signed)
H. CLINTON:
No. XVI.
May 8, 1780.
IN agreeing that the Truce ſhould be continued until Eight o'Clock Tas
morrow Morning, and all Works remain as they were, I meant to ac-
cede to your Propoſal that every Thing fhould continue in its preſent Si-
tuation, which I again afſent to.
(Signed)
B. LINCOLN.
His Excellency Sir HENRY CLINTON.
SIR,

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No. XVII.
ARTICLES of CAPITULATION, as propoſed by
Major General LINCOLN, and anſwered by their Excel-
lencies General Sir HENRY CLINTON, K. B. and Vice
Henry
:
Admiral ARBUTHNOT.
Art. I. ALL Acts of Hoftility and Work fhall ceaſe until the Articles
of Capitulation are finally agreed to or rejected.
ART. II. The Town and Fortifications, with the Shipping at the Wharves,
Artillery, and all Public Stores whatſoever, ſhall be ſurrendered in their pre-
ſent State to the Commanders of the inveſting Forces, Proper Officers ſhall
attend from the reſpective Departments to receive them,
ART. III. Granted.
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tiſh Troops.
ART. IV. The Militia now in Garriſon ſhall be permitted to return to their
reſpective Homes, as Priſoners upon Parole; which Parole, ſo long as they
obferve, ſhall fecure them from being moleſted in their Property by the Bri-
Ilocos
ART. V. Granted:
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ART. VI. Granted; except with Reſpect to their Horſes, which will not
be allowed to go out of Town, but may be diſpoſed of by a Perſon left from
each Corps for that Purpoſe.
ART. VII. The whole Garriſon ſhall, at an Hour to be appointed, march
out of the Town to the Ground between the Works of the Place and the
Canal, where they will depoſit their Arms. The Drums are not to beat a
British March, or Colours to be uncaſed.
Art: VIII. Agreed; with this Reſtriction, that he is to conſider himſelf
as a Priſoner on Parole:
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ART. IX. All Civil Officers, and the Citizens who have borne Arms during
the Siege, muſt be Priſoners on Parole ; and with Reſpect to their Property
in the City, ſhall have the ſame Terms as are granted to the Militia. And
all other Perſons now in the Town, not deſcribed in this, or other Article, are
notwithſtanding underſtood to be Priſoners on Parole.
Art. X. The Diſcuſſion of this Article, of courſe, cannot poſſibly be ena
tered into at preſent.
ART. XI, The Subjects of France and Spain ſhall have the fame Terms
as are granted to the French Conſul.
ART. XII. Granted; and a proper Veffel, with a Flag, will be provided
for that Purpoſe.
All Public Papers and Records muſt be carefully preſerved, and faithfully
delivered to ſuch Perſons as ſhall be appointed to receive them.
nebo
(Signed) H. CLINTON.
Mr. ARBUTHNOT.
Camp, before Charles-Town, May 9, 1780.

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No. XVIII.
SIR,
May 9; 1780.
IN Reply to your Anſwers on the Articles of Capitulation, 1 muſt Rea
mark that in their preſent State they are inadmiſlīble, and have to pro-
poſe that thoſe now ſent may be acceded to.
If any further Explanation ſhould be neceſſary, I have to propoſe alſo,
that two or three Gentlemen be appointed to meet and confer on the Subject.
I have the Honour to be, &c.
(Signed)
B. LINCOLN.
His Excellency Sir Henry CLINTON.
ALTERATIONS of ARTICLES of CAPITULATION, propoſed
by Major General LINCOLN.
Art. II. THE Town and Fortifications, with the Shipping at the
Wharves, (excepting thoſe which are private Property) and
all Public Stores, ſhall be ſurrendered in their preſent State to the Com-
mander in Chief of the Britiſh Forces.
ART. IV. The Militia now in Garriſon, ſhall be permitted to return to
their reſpective Homes, with their Baggage, unmoleſted, and not be
conſidered as Priſoners of War.
ART. VI. Such of the Officers as may be unwilling to diſpoſe of their
Horſes, may keep them.
ART. VII. This Article to ſtand as at firit propoſed, the Drums not
beating a Britiſh March.
ART. VIII. The French Conſul never having borne Arms, and acting
in a civil Capacity, is not to be conſidered as a Priſoner of War.
ART. IX. The Citizens, and all other Perſons, now in Town, who are
Inhabitants of this State, ſhall be ſecured in their Perſons and Properties;
both in Town and Country, and not be conſidered Priſoners of War.
ART. X. This Article to ſtand as at firſt propoſed. The Perſons who
may claim the Priviledge therein expreſſed, giving their Parole that they
will not act againſt the Britiſh Government until they are exchanged.
ART. XI. This Article to ſtand as at firſt propoſed, with the ſame Re-
Itrictions as are mentioned in Art. X.
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In order to prevent Diſputes, it is to be underſtood, that all Officers of
the Continental Army, who are Citizens of this State, be entitled to all
the Benefits of Citizens with Regard to the Security of their Property.
All Public Records now in Town, will be delivered to ſuch Perſons as
may be appointed to receive them,
(Signed)
B. LINCOLN.
Done at Charles-Toth, May 9, 1780.

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No. XIX.
SIR
May 9, 1980.
NO other Motives but thoſe of Forbearance and Compaſſion induced
us to renew Offers of Terms you certainly had no Claim to.
The Alteration you propoſe are all utterly inadmiſſible. Hoftilities will
in Conſequence commence afreſh at Eight o'Clock,
(Signed)
H. CLINTON,
Mr. ARBUTHNO T.
Major General LINCOLN.
No. XXI
CHARLES-Town, May 11, 1780.
SI R,
THE fame Motives of Humanity, which inclined you to propoſe Ara
ticles of Capitulation to this Garriſon, induced me to offer thoſe I
had the Honour of ſending you on the 8th Inſtant. They then appeared
to me ſuch as I might proffer, and you receive with Honour to both Par-
ties. Your Exceptions to then, as they principally concerned the Militia
and Citizens, I then conceived were ſuch as could not be concurred with ;
but a recent Application from thoſe People, wherein they expreſs a Willing-
nefs to comply with them, and a Wiſh on my Part to lefſen as much as
may be the Diſtreſles of War to Individuals, lead me now to offer you my
Acceptance of them.
I have the Honour to be, Sir,
Your moſt obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) B. LINCOL N.
No. XXI.
Cainp, before CHARLES-Town, May 11, 1780.
S IR,
Coro
WHEN you rejected the favourable Terms which were dictated by an
earneſt Deſire to prevent the Effuſion of Blood, and interpofed Ara
ticles that were wholly inadıniſlible, both the Admiral and myſelf were
of Opinion that the Surrender of the Town at Diſcretion, was the only
Condition that fhould afterwards be attended to; but as the Motives which
then induced them, are ſtill prevalent, I now inform you that the Terms
then offered will ſtill be granted.
A Copy of the Articles ſhall be ſent for your Ratification as foon as they
can be prepared, and immediately after they are exchanged, a Detach-
ment of Grenadiers will be ſent to take Poffeffion of the Horn Work op-
poſite your Main Gate. Every Arrangement which may conduce to good
Order in occupying the Town, ſhall be ſettled before Noon To-morrow,
and at that Time your Garriſon fhall inarch out.
I have the Honour to be, Sir,
Your moſt obedient humble Servant,
(Signed) H. CLINTON.
Ν.
Major General LINCOLN.
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