204 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C. ing for you, owing to the great advance in price of wood
wages provisions &c that we have been oblidged to make an
entire stop of bakeing your flour in my hands, which am sorry
for, at the time, I began to bake for you, wood was bought
from 8/ to 10/ p^r Cord, and most other articles in proportion,
we have been obliged all this winter to give from 20/ to 30/
for wood, and much such prices for every thing else, how-
ever the bearer M^r Hollingsworth can inform you, better than
I can of the rise of almost every necessary of life, and the
impossibility of Bakeing now for you at 3/ p^r hund^d I imma-
gine we have got baked of your flour ab^t one thousand barrels,
& have yet on hand about four or five hundred Barrels yet
unbaked which wish was baked as its growing very bad. I
have a Brig laying in Boston, New England that will carry
abo' twelve hundred barrels of flour, a fine vessel & well
found, have a good man as master for her that can be much
depended on as to conduct and attachment to our cause I
would perpose either selling her or chartering to you, which if
we could agree would have her order'd round immediately,
and as she is a small vessel and counted a very fast sailor, do
think we could get her round with considerable safety for if
the Kings Ships were in our Bay of which she could hear at
the Capes, must then go into Chincoteague Sinnapuxent, or
some other inlet there. You^l please take this into your con-
sideration and give me an answer in two or three days, when
I expect to be with you in Annapolis for that purpose, as also
to see what is to be done with the rest of your flour in my
hands.

And am Gentⁿ your most Obed^t humb^l Serv^t

Cumb^d Dugan.

[Calvert Committee to Council.]

Calvert County March 6^th 1776.

At M^r Thomas Cleverly Dare's on the Clifts. Whereas a
man of war supposed be twenty guns or upwards & two ten-
ders the one a sloop the other a schooner both armed vessels
have anchored off this shore yesterday afternoon (the man of
War ab^t 6 miles off the tenders close in shore within one mile)
with design as is suspected that is Inimical to this neighbour-
hood having taken a new england vessel yesterday noon at
the mouth of this river. The Committee consisting of the fol-
lowing Gentⁿ viz^t Col Ben Mackall Major Ja^s Wilkinson Mess^rs
Sam Hance, Edw^d Reynolds Walter Smith, Kenzy Johns, D^r
Ja^s Gray & D^r E. Johnson & M^r Ja^s Heighe. M^r Hance in the

Chair

E. Johnson Clk.