224 Journal and Correspondence

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[S. Dorsey, Jr., to Council.]

E[lk] R[idge] Furnace Aug 20^th 1776.
Gentlemen. I have at last got a Tent for a pattern which I
think is by no means a suitable one for the Purpose, therefore
I have sent one of my make with the patern received from
Baltimore for your directions which to pattern after. If they
are made with leather on the slit holes & turned Rings and
double slit holes cannot be done compleat for less than Twenty
Two shillings and six pence. They Lake to make one of the
Linnen of that size twenty three yards and no more. I have
Hands engaged to make two a day from this time. I have
sent you likewise a sample of Tent poles which I will likewise
engage to make if you will send me up your price for them.
If I can afford to make them at it I will proceed on them
immediately. As you will want some Arm Tents should be
glad to know whether I shall make you any of them and how
many. They will be quite different from the others, but will
make them as cheap as possible. If the Tent I have sent
down to you, should think it too small, I will make the rest
larger; but my man says they are full as large as any the
tents at England. I have wrote to M^r Ellicoutt concerning the
Bayonets and they inform me they have but just got their steel
from Philadelphia and are just beginning, shall see them in a
few days, when if an opportunity serves will fully inform you
about them in the mean time remain Gentlemen
Y^r most Obed' Hble Serv^t
Sam^l Dorsey Jun^r

C. S. C.

[Richardson to Council.]

Gentlemen. I have just received a letter from Captⁿ Dames,
giving a state of his Company, which I inclose. He and his
Company being very anxious to go to the northward, they
having taken much pains to procure arms and blankets for
themselves, of which they have picked up a good many the
order of your Hon^ble board directing Captⁿ Dean to take so
many of the arms of Captⁿ Dames's Company as will replace
those borrowed conditionally by Captⁿ Dean, gives the whole
company great uneasiness and Captⁿ Dames, thinks he is, by
that means, robbed of the little merit his industry and atten-
tion in the premises entitles him to. As Cap^t Dames is so
very anxious to get in motion, & thinks that with some small
assistance he shall be ready by the beginning of next week, it
is very much my wish that he should be assisted with such
necessaries as you have, and that he be indulged to keep his
Arms, if it can be done without injury to the service; for I