120 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Security have proceeded to the Execution of his Office, I
should have thought it my Duty to give him all the Aid and
Assistance in my Power, and would have punctually complied
with their Lordship's Requisitions, but M^r Hood the Dis-
tributor, being terrified by the Proceedings of the Populace,
in this as well as the Neighbouring Colonies, retired some
Weeks before the Stamp Act was to take place to New York
where he still remains, and as I had no Reason to expect that
the People of this Province would Suffer him to execute his
Office, when almost all the other Distributors on the Continent
had been obliged to resign, I did not think it advisable to call
upon him to qualify under his Commission, or to expose
himself to Insults by returning to the Province, when His
Majesty's Service could not be thereby at all promoted, There
being in his Absence no Person authorized to receive the
Stamp't Paper which was consigned to him, and no Place of
Security here in which it could be lodged, I desired Cap^t
Brown of His Majesty's Sloop Hawke, who had brought
hither a Parcel of it, to keep it on Board, until Instructions
could be received from His Majesty's Ministers concerning it,
with which request of mine he has Complied and still remains
at Anchor in this Port. I am &c.
To Charles Lowndes Esq^r Hor^o Sharpe.

This Board being informed by His Excellency the Gov-
ernor, that an Indian Woman had been left in this City by a
certain Gilbert Younger, who had formerly served in the
Maryland Forces, and had been taken Prisoner some years
since by the Indians from amongst whom it was Conjectured
he had inveigled her, is of Opinion, that she ought to be sent
back to her friends in order to relieve them from that uneasi-
ness which her Absence may have excited amongst them;
Ordered in Consequence of this Opinion that the Clerk write
the following Letter to John Welsh of Baltimore County.

Sir
The Governor being desirous of sending an Indian Woman
to her friends, who has been left at this place by a Man of
the Name of Younger, and understanding, from M^r Dulany
that you had mentioned William Roberts, who lives on Pipe
Creek, as a proper Person who would be willing to Conduct
her, has directed me to write to you in Order to learn on what
terms he would be willing to undertake to carry her, either to

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Pittsburgh or Bedford, as might be thought most expedient.
I am therefore to request that you will acquaint M^r Roberts,
by the first Opportunity that you have of either seeing or
w'riting to him, that the Governor will be glad to know what