of the Council of Safety, 1775-76. 485

Business of the Province, and altho we cannot but be in some
measure affected by the injurious insinuations thrown out in
the resolves of the convention and Council of Safety Insinua-
tions in our opinion continued and circulated to lessen in the
estimation of our Countrymen the credit of those in whom at
present the public authority in this province is placed, and are
satisfied they will not tend to promote the harmony that at this
critical period should subsist between the two colonies but may

in our apprehension be attended with the most disagreeable
and perhaps dangerous consequences, yet we shall with the
spirit & firmness of men superior to little contrivances, and
such provocations, disregard the injurious treatment these
bodies have received or any that may ever hereafter be ottered
to us as a Public body, and shall steadily to the utmost of our
power pursue every measure that in our opinion may conduce
to the Safety protection and defence of ourselves & our neigh-
bours or promote the General interest of America: — I have
thus thrown together my thoughts, whether you may think of
writing to the Committee of Safety of V-irg^a or whether you may
think of publishing any thing as a declaration to the people, I
must repeat it, I think the shorter and more peremptory it is the
better effect it will have, we are not accountable to them, for

our conduct & therefore I am not for entering into a discus-

sion of the matter with them. This letter has been wrote two
or three days & I have not had an opportunity of sending it till
now by M^r Lux I did intend to have set off for Annap^s to
morrow as I am a little better than I have been, but M^r Lux in-
forms me that the convention is to meet on the 18^th if so it will
be impossible for me to go clown and be up here again & return
again to the Convention without hurrying myself too much so
I shall stay till I hear from you by Mr. Lux. I think as the
convention is to meet shortly you need not hurry your answer
or declaration but defer it for a post or two, pray present my
compliments to all my brothers of the Council: —
I am dear Sir. Y^r most Obed^t Serv^t Cha^s Carroll.

Mount Clare Balt. County June 12^th 1776.
To the Hon^l William Hayward Esq^r

C. S. C.

[Calvert Committee to Council.]

In Committee of Observation for Calvert County June 12^th
1776.

Gentⁿ We have received your letter 4 Ins' concerning Cap^t
Bealls complaint for want of house room for his troops, we in
answer inform you that agreeable to our prior information we

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