of the Council of Maryland, 1777. 319

Ordered That the western shore Treasurer Pay to Sam^l
Edmondson two Thousand Dollars on Acco^t of the fifth Regi-
ment.

C. B.

[J. H. Stone to Gov. Johnson.]

Camp at Crumb Pond below Peeks Kills July 24^th 1777.
Sir.
As many officers of my Regiment who have rec^d large
sums of money for recruiting &c have resigned their commis-
sions since I left Maryland and as their accompts cannot be
settled unless they attend their Regiment, and leaving them
unsettled is not only putting me to great inconvenience &
trouble but also attended with the worst of consequences to
those Officers and Soldiers who remain in Camp as no money
can be drawn as pay 'till all the accompts of the Regiments
are settled & the recruiting money accounted for. many
Companies in my Regiment suffer much by the absence of
their officers, and the Regiment in general begins to feel the
bad consequences of officers being absent & leaving Accompts
unsettled, I have been obliged to draw money in the lump,
and make myself liable for it to pay the Reg^t the Congress
positively refuses to let us have another penny untill we Settle
our Accompts which cannot be done unless every recruiting
officer attends in person. I must therefore for these & many
other reasons beg you will not receive the resignation of any
officer in my regiment, if you wou'd wish to promote the Ser-
vice, nothing new in the Military department, the enemy
seem undetermined as to their next push, it depends altogether
upon their success or disappointment at the Northward noth-
ing more than what you have heard from Tyconderoga its
evacuated & thats all the intelligence we can get. I hope
you will be able to furnish all our troops with blankets, its
intirely unnecessary to send them forward without they can
not be had here or at Philadelphia, we have many of the
Maryland troops without Blankets or Tents, they must
undoubtedly be lost, we are promised these necessary
articles immediately. We have also suffered much for shoes,
and I am afraid will suffer much more for that article this fall,
we shall also be very bare of all kinds of Cloathing by the
winter and unless we are furnished more than probable shall
be in the same disagreeable situation we were last year, much
will depend upon having an army fit for the field this fall &
winter. I hope the legislature of Maryland has taken such
steps as will immediately lead to the completion of the several
Reg^ts We have now in the field fit for duty only about 1100
men from Maryland, so that we make but a trifling figure with

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