158 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

[Council to Talbot Committee.]

Gentlemen. In Consequence of an information we received
that there were one or two Bar^s of Bullets and a quantity of
gunflints belonging to this Province in the Possession of M^r
Leeds, we wrote to you the 14^th July requesting that you
would make enquiry into that matter and if you found it true,
that you would take them under your care and send them to
the Council Safety by the first safe conveyance; but as we
have not received any answer to our letter we presume it
must have miscarried, and therefore we send you this, and
beg that you will immediately examine into the truth of the
above information.

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[Dent to Council.]

Gentlemen. Charles County August 1^st 1776.
Inclosed you have my commission as Brigadier for the
Flying Camp, which I return for the same reason of that I
dont doubt you've received 'ere this viz. that you have a con-
trolling power therein under which I am resolved never more
to act. I am Gentlemen with due respect,
Your Hble. Serv^t &^c
Jno. Dent.

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[Thomas Smyth, Sen., to Council.]

Gentlemen. Chester Town August 1^st 1776.
My son waits on the Council for his and his Officers' Com-
missions and for such orders as they may think necessary to
give him. I am afraid the Companies raised in this County
will be delayed a good deal for want of arms, those that are
tolerably good are very difficult to be got, most people that
have guns will rather sell than lend and are very pressing for
their money, it will be necessary to send some money to the
Committee to pay for Guns & blanketts the latter I believe
will be furnished without much difficulty.
The Committee in pursuance of your Honours request has
employed a Cooper in making wooden Bottles, a sample
whereof you'll receive by the Bearer the price is 2/6 each.
You'll please to say how many you wou'd have made and the
time when they must be finished. I am with much respect
Y^r most Hble Serv^t
Tho^s Smyth