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his Health and private Concerns and that the Chairman make
out a Pass-port to be delivered to the said Dan^l Wolstenholme
agreeable to the Resolve." Abraham Barnes Esq^r the Chair-
man of the Committee accordingly delivered to M^r Wolsten-
holme the Pass-port in the Terms of the Resolution aforesaid
& he the said M^r Wolstenholme put himself to considerable
Trouble and Expence to prepare himself for his Departure.
When M^r Wolstenholme had got into a Readiness to make
use of his Pass-port, he addressed a Letter to Gov^r Eden then
on board the Fleet at S^t Georges requesting him to use his
Influence with the Commanding Officer (Commodore Ham-
mond) to procure a Flag to be sent ashoar to take him aboard.
This Letter was put into the Hands of the Gentleman who
then commanded the Militia at S^t Georges & it was for-
warded by him on board the Fleet. Unfortunately for M^r
Wolstenholme the Fowey Cap^t Montague lay nearest the
Shoar and his Letter was delivered along side of that Ship.
Cap^t Montague having by his Conduct some time before off
Annapolis been deemed to have broken the Truce agreed to,
the Convention had resolved that no Correspondence should
be continued with that Ship. To this Reason M^r Wolsten-
holme attributes his being prevented from going in that Ships
Boat which was sent ashoar with a Flag for him, as he has
never heard any other Cause assigned for depriving him of
the Effect of his Pass-port.
M^r Wolstenholme looks upon himself as having been
exceedingly unlucky that that Ships Boat of all others in the
Fleet, should have been employed in this Business, believing
that had any other Ships Boat been sent he would have been
permitted to go, as he is not conscious of having done any-
thing to forfeit the Indulgence granted him under the
Resolve of Convention. The Hardships M^r Wolstenholme has
suffered by the Detention of. his Person and Property, his
Situation in respect of his Health & the peculiar Circum-
stances of his Case being duly considered, he hopes that the
Validity of his Pass port may be established and that he be
permitted to depart with his Effects on the Terms therein
mentioned.

C. S. C.

[Otho Williams to Convention.]

Gentlemen, Frederick Town July 23^rd 1776.
Colonel Stull informs me that at your last convention at
Annapolis you did me the very great honour of appointing
me a Colonel of the Frederick County Battalion to serve the
United States of America in the flying camp until the first day
of December next.