366 Journal and Correspondence

C.S.C.

Captain, when he gets there, will apply to Congress and
receive from them further orders
Oct^r 18, 1776
Col^o Charles Rumsey.

No. 225.

[Council to J. Claypole.]
Sir. Oct. 20^th 1776
We want a large quantity of strong shoes, immediately
made for our Troops and if you incline to contract with thus,
we desire you will come down as soon as you receive this.
Oct. 19^th 1776

Original.

[C. Richmond to Council.]

Gentlemen. Heights near Harlaem 18^th October 1776.
I this day received your Honour's letter of the 11^th Inst,
communicating your instructions to stop the money due to the
State of Maryland, from the several people mentioned in the
accounts therein inclosed, amounting to £3675.. 17.. 5. I
will endeavor to do this as soon as possible, but fear the
whole cannot be received till the pay for the rrjonths of Sep-
tember & October is issued by the Paymaster General, the
men having suffered great losses in cloaths on Long Island,
will want the whole of the money remaining due to them for
July & August to procure such covering as is to be had. The
Pay abstract of continental pay due to the Battalion and
Veazey's Com^py & Hindman's, the Battalion & Veazy's com-
mencing the 6^th July the time they were voted into the service
of the continent — and Hindman's the 26^th of same month, the
time he received his last orders to march, calculated to the
31^st August amounts to £4126.. 15.. 2. out of which the State
of Maryland by the paymaster there, and through the hands
of Col Smallwood, has advanced upwards of £1600, which will
be secured for the State as soon as possible, and remitted as
soon as received. The Battalion and Veazey's Compa^y will
have 3 days pay due to them from the State of Maryland,
which it is proposed to pay them out of the last mentioned
sum. The money is ready at the Paymaster General's office,
but on account of the alarm of the enemy's landing troops on
different parts of the main land of this Colony from the
Sound, I have thought it adviseable to put off receiving it
till our troops get a little settled in their new encampment
above Kingsbridge to which place they marched, from hence,
last Saturday. You will be pleased to observe that the sum
of £200 charged in the accounts rece^d from you as advanced
Cap^t Veazey is not included in the £1600 above mentioned,
Col. Smallwood having paid him at Philadelphia half a month's