of the Council of Safety, 1776. 5

not to be had you will please to get the necessary Carriages in

Talbot for your Baggage and lay in a sufficient quantity of
Provision for your men until you can reach the Head of Elk.
Col^o Smallwood's Battalion will set off by water to morrow or
on Tuesday. [Same to Lieutenant Harrison to march his
Division from Kent Island]
7^th July 1776

C.S.C.

[Council to Veazey.]

No. 5.

To Captⁿ Edward Veazey
Sir. You will perceive by the inclosed Resolves that your
Company is to march immediately to Philad^a — the service
requires the utmost despatch. Waggons will be ready for
you at the head of Elk to carry your Baggage and a proper
supply of Provisions from thence to Philadelphia You will
please to get the necessary Carriages in Kent for your Bag-
gage, and lay in a sufficient quantity of Provisions for your
men until you can reach the Head of Elk. Colonel Small-
Woods Battalion will set off To-morrow or on Tuesday by
water, and so we expect will Lieut^t Harrison' s division of y^r
Company as we have given him his orders.
7^th July 1776

[Council to Buchanan.]

No. 6.

To M^r Arch^d Buchanan
Sir. We are despatching the Troops from home to Philad^a
including those from Baltimore, they will amount to 1000 men,
and they are to go by water to the Head of Elk. When they
arrive there perhaps they may be at a Loss for a supply of
Provision for their march, which may take them up four days
from thence, we therefore think it necessary that you or
M^r Cummings, or some Person for you, should be there to be
ready to supply them in case they should be in want.
7^th July 1776

[E. Johnson to Council.]
Gentlemen
The day I fixed in the week before last for to search into
the Clifts on this River after Salt, proves rainy, & thereby I
was disappointed in many hands engaged, but however with
what I had I sunk a shaft ten feet square & five feet deep in
the inside of the Clift, free from any tide that ever flowed since
the Deluge, & have found since, that a few days sun thereon
has brought out some appearances of saline particles so that I
conclude this earth will yield Salt & have ordered it to be
tried, the success of which you shall know p^r next post. If this