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[Circular to Purchasers of Clothing.]
Circular. In Council Annapolis 13th May 1778
Sir
It is with Pleasure we request you will not make any
further Purchases of Cloathing for the Troops under your
present Instructions, excepting Hats. We have lately en-
gaged a considerable quantity of Linen of Mr. Morris and
are empowered to appropriate some Cloathing belonging to
the Congress to the use of our Quota; with those Additions
we shall be able to furnish our Men tolerably well; any that
you may have on Hand, we wish you to send forward as
formerly directed, or, if wanted by the Recruits or Substitutes
of your County, deliver to the Officers for their Use. Be so
obliging also as to transmit us an Account of your Purchase
and your Disposition of the Cloathing, that we may have the
General Account made up as soon as may be. We are &ca
To the Purchasers of Cloathing.
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[Council to D. Hughes.]
In Council Annapolis 13th May 1778.
Sir
Capt Charles Coulston has waited on us and tells us that
the Company over which he was appointed Captain is, in your
now Disposition of the Militia, broke and divided between
Daniel Cresap's & Charles Clinton's Companies. We have
never received a return from you of any of the Militia beyond
Licking Creek and wish to have it as soon as may be, that
the Officers may be commissioned, and the Militia to the
westward put in the best State, that they may be ready at any
Time to act in their own Defence, if, as is too likely, it should
be necessary. We think as Captn Coulston's Company is a
frontier Company, it had better be kept entire, unless there
are Reasons against it which do not occur to us and which we
request you will mention, if you should still think it proper to
break that Company. Captain Coulston also mentions that
you desired him not to call on his Company to meet and
exercise because, we suppose, of your Intention to divide it
as mentioned before, but, 'til the new Commissions are issued,
his is certainly in Force. The Number of Men to be raised
in your County was fixed on the Number of the two lower
Battalions only, and we are apprehensive that the Conduct of
the Indians may make it necessary to strengthen the upper
Part. We are Sir &ca
P. S. Capt. Coulston says that he was arrested by Colo
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