208 Journal and Correspondence

as posible in my charges and doe your business as well as I
posibly can, and make the best bargains I can for you; but I
declare if any person will doe it on better terms I should bee
pleased. The timber is purchased redy and most of it down
and I will hire them my carages (as there is no other) at a
moderate rate, if any person will now bring it into the Yard
on better terms then the proposalls I make. Wee shall lay one
of the keels this day and and the other next week I hope, but
expect a line from you on the before menshoned matters. I
have furnish^t the Yard with her Rum at market prices and my
charges of every kind has been thought reasonable and a
Lowd and they beg of mee to bee redy for them again with all
my teems, carages and hands. So please gentlemen to write
mee and if the Rum is to be furnisht for the Yard 2 drinks a
day of grog and no more the carters and people rafting and
geting Timber must have Rum, in that I want neither more
nor less than I had with the Friggit, but thought it my duty to
explain my bargin to you that you mou^t no the matter. I
have bought a Skow that will carry 600 bushells for [ ]28
pounds a very good one. Pleas send for her I have sent
some coffy, tee and nails to Anopolis, sum pots to Cap^t Vezey
at Newtown. I have never heard if the ware recvd. Please
let mee know about the bales I wrote by M^r Huckings. Excuse
this long letter. Please answer it from Your Hble Servant.
Balt. Aug. 15^th 1776. Jesse Hollingsworth

C. S. J.

Friday 16^th August 1776.

Council met. Present as on yesterday.
Ordered That Western Shore Treasurer pay to Captⁿ John
Gunby forty five Pounds four shillings and three pence, on
Acc^t of his Comp^y
Ordered That said Treasurer pay to Captain Peter
Mantz one hundred and twenty five pounds C^y for advance to
his comp^y
Ordered That said Treasurer pay to John Brice twenty
Pounds, for Horse Hire.
Ordered That said Treasurer pay to John Pitt sixteen
Pounds, twelve shillings & six Pence for Boat Hire for Flying
Camp.
Ordered That said Treasurer pay to John Pitt seventy three
Pounds, fifteen shillings for his Look out Boat.
Ordered That said Treasurer pay to Captⁿ Mantz two
Pounds, four shillings & eleven Pence for Bal^a of Acc^t filed.
Ordered That the Committee of Worcester County deliver
to Captⁿ John Watkins all the musquets belonging to the
public, in their possession.