566 Journal and Correspondence

C.S.C.

Get the Brigg ready as fast as possible and let her be
loaded with best Flour, some Bread, and thirty or Forty
Hogsheads of Tobo. if to be got on Tolerable terms; Your
militia we hear are marching, but we think you ought to be
excused, as you are much engaged in the service of the State ;
should you go, you will leave our business we expect in good
hands.
Dec^r 31, 1776

No. 77.

[Council to W. Lux.]

M^r William Lux
Sir. Upon looking over the returns made to our Board by
our Commissioners, we find that they have filled up all the
majorities, and left to us some vacancies for Lieutenants and
Ensigns, neither of which stations M^r Hopkins chuses to fill,
and indeed by the Resolution of our Convention our hands, in
the line of Promotion, have been tied up to the Regulars and
to the Flying Camp Battallions. When we desired M^r
Hopkins to come down, we did not know that the Commis-
sioners had proceeded in filling up the Commissions to the
extent they have done, otherwise we should have been explicit
and thereby prevented him from taking this journey to
Annap^s.
The Acct^s you mention will be paid so soon as they are
passed by the Board of Accounts.
Dec^t 31^st 1776

Original.

[Cook to Council.]

Hon^d Gent. Philadelphia Decem^r 31^st 1776.
I wrote you on Tuesday last, and since that time the greatest
part of the people I brought here is inlisted in the land service
for the sake of the twenty dollars bounty, and gone to the
Camp. Those who were sailors has enter'd in Merchant men,
wages being extravagantly high. Since our arrival here have
been helping to fitt out the Deleware two days past. M^r
Morris desired we should repair on board one of the row
Gallies and follow that part of the army that's gone into the
Jerseys. We made the attempt but the ice prevented us from
proceeding, upon which we were oblidg'd to return. I have
used every persuasive argument in my power to keep them
together but they complain of the want of cloths and of their
time being expired.
I have not over twelve men with officers that is now willing
to go to Camp. I informed M^r Morris a few days agoe of my
Peoples entring and going off as there was no immediate call
at Philadelphia. I wanted permission to return to the Ship