502 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

come into the latitude of our Cape, if you have a strong wind
in, and no danger of men of war or Tenders, push up the bay
as far as possible, if you find a better chance of getting safe
into any of the Inletts between Cape Henlopen and Cape
Charles than into our Bay, you may push into one of them
and send an express to the Council of Safety, letting them
know where you are and what you have got, take care to land
your goods as soon as you can under the directions of a Com-
mittee, for fear of being followed by Tenders or other armed
vessels — in going out you are to take a brisk gale of wind or
get out in the night; hope you will conduct yourself with care

and industry, in the voyage — if you are chaced & find you must
be taken, throw all your papers over board with weights to
sink them — should M^r Vanbebber not be at S^t Eustatia, or in
that neighbourhood, you are to apply to M^r Rich^d Harrison at
Martinique and deliver your letters for Vanbebber to him &
follow his Directions.
June 20^th 1776

Original.

[Dugan to Council.]

Baltimore 19^th June 1776.
Gentⁿ Your fav^r of yesterday is now before me, desiring
me to deliver the Schooner Three Sisters a load of your flour
in my hands, but am at a loss to know the quality you would
have shiped in that vessel, whether of the superfine or the
common fine kind, and I further desire to advise you the state
of the Ninety two's Cargo, as its all now landed a great part
of which we find musty & sower, and in bakeing it up are
oblidg'd to pick out some good casks and mix with the bad in
order to make the bread good & its keeping so. We have
got a considerable quantity that we reckon exceeding good
already baked and are still going on bakeing for your the
publick acco^t the damage in the flour I take it is principally
owing to its being packed in quite green casks, as when we
take out the heads of many of them find the flour on the top
as green as grass, and almost as hard as a board,
its geting cool fast, and hope you wont loose any of it, it
appears to us hear it would answer you much the best to ship
the 100 Bls flour of yours in Mess^rs Lux & Bowlys hands that
has not been yet heated in a Vessel's hould, which with some
of your Bread in Barrels & in kegs that was in the 92 and is
now in my hands will make a good Cargo for this vessel three
sisters to the West Indias as you mention.
I beg you may not immagin, I presume to dictate your
Honourable Board, as you must know much better then I can