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C. C.

what you can, without obstructing the Continental Purchasers

and, if you have an Opportunity, engage for any Quantity
beyond what this Money will buy, it will be wanted for the
State or Continent. You mentioned, when in Town, your
Inclination to buy the Dolphin, but the Assembly did not leave
us any Power to sell either of the Boats. We are &^ca
Nathan^l Potter Esq^r

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[Council to Col. Birckhead.]

In Council Annapolis 19^th Feb^ry 1778.
Sir
We send you by M^r Gibson's Boat, to be lodged at M^r
Baker's, 150 of the Arms lately imported, for the Use of your
County, agreeable to a Resolution of the Assembly. We
have not the Cartridges made, and therefore cannot now send
them but are in Hopes that, if it should be necessary to use
the Arms, the Deficiency of Cartridges may be supplied with
naked Bullets or, perhaps better, with mould shot, especially
as the People are not used to load with Cartridge. There is
no particular Order, as to the Disposition of the Arms, but, if
you judge as we do, you will distribute them in the Hands of
the Captains who you expect will take the best Care of them.
We are &^ca
P. S. We understand that there are only about 12 Barrels
of Powder in your Magazine; it cannot be worth while to keep
a Guard over so small a Quantity and it is too much to have
in one Place, without. We therefore wish you to take the
Powder and put it into the Hands of the Militia Officers with
the Arms, not breaking the Barrels.
Col^o Burkhead.

Original.

[Washington to Johnson.]

Valley forge Feb^y the 19^th 1778
Sir.
For reasons that will be obvious to you, it is thought the
publication of the inclosed address may answer valuable ends ;
and I beg leave to submit to you, whether it may not serve to
increase its effect, if it were ushered into the Papers of your
State with a recommendatory line from yourself. If you should
suppose there will be any impropriety in this, you will be
pleased notwithstanding to commit the address itself to the
Printer. I have the Honor to be
with great respect
Sir
Your most Obed^t Servant
G^o Washington