96 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

[Barrister Carroll to Jenifer.]

My dear Major. I communicated your letter to the Gentⁿ
you mentioned, they will with the utmost pleasure send their
assistance to form a plan for the very good purposes you men-
tion & would most willingly wait on you to dinner to morrow.
But think it impossible they can get back time enough to meet
the house in the afternoon. Will it be agreeable to the Gov-
ernor & yourself to take a Scrap Dinner with me tomorrow.
You know I cant give you meat but you shall both be most
heartily welcome to what I can give you. We expect the con-
vention will break up tomorrow evening. Pray let me hear
from you tomorrow mor^g early. We must have a meeting
Jan^y 15, 1776. Y^r affec^t Hble. Serv^t Cha^s Carroll.

I wrote you a note about dinner time on the appointment of
the Council of Safety w^h I hope you Rec^d

To the Hon^ble Dan^l of S^t Tho^s Jenifer Esq^r

Original.

[Courtenay to Barrister Carroll.]

Sir. Your favour of 14^th is now before me the contents of
which I note, you may be assured that I want no other indul-
gence in loading the Brig Friendship then others are intitled
to by Similar contracts and without vanity can say that I can
execute such business on equal terms with any other in Balti-
more, but I wish not to sacrifice a commission in giving
advanced prices above my limits, as am pretty certain has been
the case with some since my writing to you last, I wonder my
application has been the first to raise the price as I have been
told by several that the Convention was wrote to on same
head, but when I wrote you first, the matter was only begin-
ning & that with people who were buying on some private
acc^t & note, or that of the Convention, which disabled those
employed by them from executing their commissions as the
County people & millers will always sell to those who give
them most; nay some flour that I had bought two days ago,
was taken from my door & given to another private buyer,
who gave 13/ p^r O for it, under such circumstances, the
market is at present; & unless some order is taken therein to
put a stop to private buyers it appears that the public must be
empeaded. I did inform the Committee that I had engaged
between 4 & 500 Barr^s which was the case but bad weather
has I must suppose sloped the wagons; I have about 170
Barr^s flour on board & the bread is ready but that must go in
last, I shall go on with loading as fast as flour comes in, &
follow your directions. I thought I could not do less then