202 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

No. 133.

[Council to Northumberland Committee.]

The Committee of North^d County
Gentⁿ You will be pleased to deliver to Cap^tn Ja^s Nicholson
or order, the powder, arms & ozn^s imported in the Molly,
Captⁿ Conway, & which you were so obliging as to land in a
place of security. We shall be happy in having it in our
power to render you the like good offices, & will most cheer-
fully repay you every expence that you have been put to on
Acc^t of this importation.
14^th Aug^t 1776.

Original.

[Wiesenthal to Council.]

Gentlemen. Annapolis Aug 14^th 1776.
When I was before the Council the time before I set out for
New York, I was desired to furnish the council a memoran-
dum concerning the Direction of physical matters of the mili-
tary, in the province; and that it was unavoidable, the nature
of the circumstances requires it, which memorandum you
intended to lay before the Convention, but as imidiately
after D^r Toothill was appointed for the present Battallion, and
acting at the same time as Director, it gives me room to sup-
pose myself to be superseeded and consequently discharged
from any provincial Employment, my commission being .Sur-
geon to the Battallion of Colo Smallwood, I never looked
upon to be what I intended, but accepted it merely since the
other was not as yet established. Should my suggestions of
my discharge be your intention, be then pleased to give D^r
Toothill or any body else an order for the delivery of the
remaining Medicines of the province now under my care, and
as there will be a Ballance coming to me, both for the Bat-
talion as well as the attendance at Baltimore Town and Fort,
you will please to issue your order for that purpose.
I have the honor to be with due respect, Gentlemen,
Your most obed^t & Hble Servant,
C. Wiesenthal

Original

[H. Hollingsworth to Council.]

To the Honourable Council of Safety of Maryland.
Gentlemen. Your several letters relative to forwarding the
troops I have Rec^d, have give every assistance in my power,
but have found much dificulty in some cases to give that dis-
patch I could have wish'd (on account of our waggons being
taken on to Philad^a, so that the next troops were obliged to
wait their return) that it hath from needsessety induc'd me to
forrne the following plan, which I flatar myselfe will be