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which you will follow. You will advise us by every Oppor-
tunity of your Situation and Proceedings
We are &^ca
Capt. Daniel Deshon.

[Council to E. Blaine.]

In Council Annapolis 15^th May 1778

Sir
By this Day's Post we received yours of the 7^th We shall
consider and advise you of the Persons we may think will as-
sist you in your Office with Integrity and Industry. We have
derived no Assistance from the Recommendation of Congress
of the 24^th of April, to the Government of Pennsylvania, to
furnish Sailors for manning the Maryland and Virginia Gallies:
a due Attention to it would much forward the Transportation
of the Provisions purchased. A good Deal of Meat, especially
Bacon, has been bought up in this State, we wish it to be re-
moved as soon as may be, for immediate use, and shall do all
we can to accomplish it, for, besides its being wanted, it will
not keep in collected Quantities, unless there's more than
common Attention to it.
We are &^ca
Ephraim Blaine Esq^r
D^y Com^y Gen^l of Purchases

[Council to Maxwell, Nesbitt & Co.]

In Council Annapolis 15^th May 1778.
Gen^t
We received your Favor of the 12^th by the Post to Day.
We were just about giving Orders to a Galley going nearly
opposite to Matompkin, to bring us one Half the Linen
invoiced agreeable to your Order of the 5^th We believe it will
be a safe Conveyance and could have wished agreeable to
the other Purchasers, that the whole might have come hither
together or that they should have been brought by Land no
farther than Cambridge there they might have been easily
divided and from thence they might have been readily sent to
Baltimore or the Head of the Bay. What is for the Continent
might have been readily made into Shirts & Overalls at
Baltimore. The increased Expence and what is more
considerable, the great Delay from sending the Goods to
Lancaster and afterwards bringing them back induce us still

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