308 Journal and Correspondence

C.S.C.

No. 196.

[Council to Baltimore Committee.]

The Committee of Obsⁿ for Balt^o County
Gentⁿ
We wrote you the 5^th of June requesting you would render
a particular Acc^t of the expenditure of the [ ]1000 sent the 8^th
March, to defray the expences of the militia on the alarm occa-
sioned by the Otter Sloop of War, and also to supply us with
y^r vouchers for the general charges in the Acc^t of Monies
expended on the fortifications at Whetstone Point, but have
not yet been furnished with them; we again repeat that
request, and as we are anxious to have all our acc^ts settled to
lay before the Convention, hope to have the above immedi-
ately transmitted to us
28^th Sep^r 1776

No. 197.

[Council to Rumsey and others.]

Col^s Rumsey, Hollingsworth, & Major Parker
Gentⁿ We have sent you the money you requested viz^t
700 [ ], for Col^o Hollingsworth, also [ ]500 for the Flying Camp
service; be pleased to apply for Linen for Tents to Major
Parker; and get them made where you can; perhaps they may
be got ready made at Baltimore Town, where we would have
you apply for Cartouch Boxes, Camp Kettles, Canteens, also
Knapsacks and Havresacks. Gerrard Hopkins our Deputy
Commissary will furnish you if there be any ready made — flints
we are not to furnish, unless it be sufficient for the Comp^ys Guns,
we want much to see & converse with Col^o Hollingsworth, and
therefore write no answer to his letter.
Sep^r 28^th 1776

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[H. Hollingsworth to Council.]

Head of Elk 28^th Sep^t 1776.
Gentlemen. The troops having principally pass'd on, I have
for this few days past been collecting the account, in order to
lay them before your Honnours, for which purpose I intended
setting out this day for Annapolis, but yesterday had letters
from Colo^s Parker and Eyloit, of the Virgenia Forses, request-
ing that I would procure provisions, waggons and other nes-
sesarys for the 4^th and 5^th Virgenia rigements, and that they
would leave Williamsburge (as last Sunday) has retarded my
setting out and as I am in great want of cash, am imbouldened
to draw on your Honnours for seven hundred pounds, the accts
that I have collected, paid and assumed for, ammounts to one
thousand and fifty odd pounds. I have received of your Hon-