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are requested to give him Dispatch. There are other Goods,
we presume, lodged with you, belonging to the Continent: if
the Galley can take them in, we desire they may also be sent,
or so many as the Captain can take on Board. If there should
be any Provisions purchased by the Agent, send them also.
We are &^ca
Robertson Stephens Esq^r
Shff. Dorchester County

[Council to Capt. Coursey.]

In Council Annapolis Ap^l 29^th 1778
Sir.
We expected, agreeable to our former Orders that you
would have been down here before this Time. We now desire
that you will immediately proceed down with your Galley, no
Excuse will be admitted We are &^ca
Cap^t Coursey

[Clerk of Council to S. Nichols.]
In Council Annapolis 29^th Ap^l 1778

Sir.
In Consequence of what you wrote me some Time ago, I
informed the Council that you had engaged 50 Hh^ds of Tobacco
and we depended upon you for that Quantity. The Price of
Tobacco has taken a greater Rise than was expected, and we
shall make you a further Allowance. The Council wants 10
Hh^ds more to compleat a Load for a Vessel they are sending
to Sea and will be obliged to you to furnish the Quantity, so
as to make, in the Whole 60 Hh^ds The Tobacco we doubt not
but you will get upon the best Terms, and the Money shall be
paid to your Order. The Tobacco you will be pleased to

C. C.

deliver to Captⁿ Walker, whose Galley we have ordered to
take it in, and, we trust, Dispatch will be given her. Can you
furnish about 40 Hh^ds more at the Price now going? Send over
the Weights of the Tobacco, that I may be enabled to settle
with the State I am &^ca E. L.
To M^r Sam^l Nichols
Wye River

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Friday 1 May 1778

Present as on Wednesday Tho Sim Lee Esq^r Attended
Ordered that M^r Crysall deliver to Captain Massey of the
Defence Tender Thirty pounds Tallow & some Terpentine

C. R.