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unremitting Zeal, and not fail to assist our Neighbours, if nec-
sary; — and upon the whole, after again repeating our Thanks,
permit us to assure you that we are persuaded, when our
Transactions come to be fully canvassed, and the true Interest
of this Province considered, that you will have no Occasion to
blush for our Conduct.

N. B. We have received the surgeon's instruments &^c and
delivered them safe to Doctor Weisenthal.
22^d Apl. 1776

Original.

[Nicholson to Council.]

Baltimore Ap^l 22^d 1776.
Gentlemen, of the Honourable the Council of Safety of
Maryland. I have now to inform you of the armed Schooner
Resolution being equiped agreeable to your directions she

wants principally the Commissions for her officers, who refuse

acting out of the Harbour until their commissions are confirm'd.
After which shoud be glad of your permission to go down the
Bay as far as you think proper, in order to exercise our men
& Consult with Cap. Boucher. The Schooner has about 40
hands now shipt, but is capable of carrying 70 with great
Conveniency. If you think proper to have that number com-
pleat you'll please to let me know The officers that has been
acting aboard are William Waud Cap. Henry Auchinlick
Lieu^t Bennett Johnson Master, and as far as I can discover are
proper persons. M^r Dorsey one of the ships midshipmen I
understand has made application for a Lieutenancy of marines,
I think him very capable. I am Gentⁿ with much sincerity.
Your oblidged Humble Serv^t to Command :
Ja^s Nicholson

Original.

[Young to Council.]

Baltimore 22^d April 1776.
Gentⁿ I have the pleasure of advising you the safe arrival
of the Brig" Beith in the W. I. the 3^d Ult^o without any inter-
ruption. I sent you by M^r Lux a letter for you from him but
have learnt that he forgot it I suppose he has sent it since his
return.
I am sorry to advise you the loss of the Brigⁿ Nancy Capt
Wise somewhere in the Bay a few days ago, I have not rec^d
any letter from him but have it from a Gentⁿ from the Eastern
Shore of undoubted authority & believe it to be a fact, it ap-
pears from the care Captⁿ Wise has taken that it is merely