512 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

No. 48.

[Council to Baltimore Committee.]

Gentlemen. We have heretofore requested you to summon
Vincent Traplin to appear before the Council of Safety to
answer for his misconduct. We have since seen M^r Bosley
and M^r Smith and also the Deposition of John Wilmot; we
are satisfied that Traplin is a dangerous man, and therefore
request you would take the necessary measures to have him
arrested, and sent down here under a guard. We think it
most prudent to have this step taken, when there is no danger
of any insurrection or rising of the people in his neighbour-
hood.
Dec^r 7^th 1 776
The Committee of Observation for Baltimore County.

Original.

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

December 7^th 1776.
Gentlemen.
I take this opportunity to inform you of my success in pro-
curing coles which has taken up most of my time till now, and
have now as much as will last me twelve months. Have cast
a few small guns, should be glad you would apoint sum
person to prove them this next weak that in case they should
not answer we mite make another mixture of mettle, there is
M^r Swannhum or M^r Hammilton that lives at the Landing if
you think proper, which would be allways on the spott or any
person you chuse. Pleas appoint sumone that will attend
when requested in Time.
Remain your Humble Serv^t to com^d

Sam^l Dursey Jun^r

Original.

[W. Paca to Council.]
Gentⁿ
Congress is of opinion that the order from the Board of War
extends only to such prisoners as are natives of Great Britain
and soldiers from thence in the present war, and therefore the
prisoners from Carolina and privates there lately taken in
arms against us are not comprehended and are still to be
detained, as to the two Gentlemen taken by Capt Cook
whether they be prisoners or not is a matter our State must
decide and not congress. I am told by the Delegates to the
Eastward that persons in such predicament are set at liberty,
but the property taken is confiscated, but this is not a general
rule. Circumstances often require them to be prisoners, you
must therefore (I speak my own opinion only) exercise your
discretion in the present case.