386	Records of Maryland Troops in the Continental Service

purchaser of cloathing I have received with an enclosed Law to seize
all articles suitable for that purpose. The dificulty of purchasing with
out anything to purchase with, must be very apparent to your Excel
lency & to seize those articles from merchants, who have very few
goods, and nothing else to depend on, will prove their ruin; yet I am
fully convinced of the necessity of supplying the Soldiery with cloathing;
& was it in my power to forward this business with any degree of
propriety, I would undertake it, notwithstanding I am of opinion that
Lieutenants of Counties are very improper persons to execute Laws of
this Nature. Should you think it necessary to have seized, the few
goods in our Town, you will please to appoint some other person for
that purpose, as I am already fully employed. I have enclosed a list of
the recruits obtained by virtue of the Law passed last Session, & have
engaged Capt. Kemp to carry them to Annapolis in his Vessel from our
Town, the drafted men are endeavouring to procure substitutes which
I will send with all possible dispatch, those who do not get recruits
may be very dificult to collect, a few of them are poor men with Fami
lies. The 27th battalion have furnished their proportion of select
militia, the 1 3th battalion is Classed for the purpose of Drafting. Mr.
George Hanson who was appointed collector of horses refused to Act,
he being Lieut. in the troop of Light Horse, had not time to execute
the Law. On his refusal, I appointed Capt. George Hartshorn who
has been very unsuccessful, he has brought for examination about six
horses, & tells me that the nonjurors have not horses fit for the
purpose. I have done all in my power to spur him to execute the Law
with dispatch & have requested him to call on the commissioners for
their direction. I am apprehensive that I shall not be able to send all
the recruits agreeable to my list, some of them being in the Country
without permission.
		I am Sir with respect yr.
			hble. Servt.
   To His Excellency		W. Bordley.
    Thos. Sim Lee, Esq.


Kent County.	A List of Recruits.	[Enlisted for 3 yrs.]

Charles Ogilsby		William Grant, (during		Samuel Whitehouse, (dead)
John Pearce		     the War)			Nicholas Smith
William Caulk, (during	Daniel Norris			Peregrine Reed
 the War)		John Kelly			Beal Thomas