266 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

No. 70.

[Council to Young.]

To Mr. Hugh Young.
Sir.
We should have answered your Letter of the 11^th Instant by
M^r Smyth before now, but the Variety of Business before the
Council has prevented us. We would have you send out the
Nancy Cap^t Wise immediately under the Orders heretofore
given, and finish loading the Schooner Ninety two as speedily
as possible and send the Captain to us for his sailing Orders.
20^th March 1776

Original.

[Maryland Deputies to Council.]

Gent. Cap^t Tibbit in a Brig from Statia, purchased &
loaded by Ahram Vanbebber for our Province, arrived here last
Week, the Cap^t applied to us for Orders agreeable to Direc-
tions, he had received for that purpose from Vanbebber. We
ordered the Cargo to be landed & stored, and the Hands to be
discharged, — a few Days since Application was made to us, for
the Sale of the Brig to the Congress, which we agreed to, and
have delivered her up with the Guns, Stores &^ca the acc^t rela-
tive to her, will be settled in a few Days, & shall be trans-
mitted. You have inclosed a List of the Goods imported, all
of which, will be forwarded by the Stages, except the Duck.
We have retained this, till your Orders, it is an Article very
scarce & dear in this City, if you do not want the whole
Quantity, we can sell it, at a Price that will leave a consider-
able Profit — Congress have advanced 22000 Dollars, to be
exchanged for Gold & Silver in your Province, this Money
would have been sent you had any convenient Opportunity
offered. R. A. who intended for Maryland last Sunday, pre-
vented our writing, by the Saturdays post as he proposed
going to Annapolis, and could give you fuller Information of
the state of Affairs, than can be contained within the Compass
of a Letter. We make no doubt you have heard various
reports relative to a M^r Temple, who came passenger in the
packet & is now in this City, before his arrival here it was
asserted, that he was charged with Dispatches from the
Minority to Congress, that Courts were appointed with full
powers, and that if on their arrival in America, the different
Assemblies refused to treat, they were to treat with Congress;
Temple on his arrival, delivered his Budget, which was truly
farsical, being only a Button of his Coat, in which was con-
tained a Scrawl from Arthur Lee informing Congress that
Troops were to sail from Ireland & for other Particulars refer-
ring to Temple, who could give Information, as he Lee had