288 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 177

[Council to Colo. Joseph Dashiell]

Sir Yours of the 10^th Ins^t we have this Day received and are sorry
to observe that there should be any Interference so as to injure your
Purchase of Pork. We are happy to find you have engaged a
Number of Cattle which, as well as the other Kind of Provision,
is much wanted in our Army; we therefore request you to have them
drove to the Head of Elk as soon as possible and have all the other
Provision transported to that Place and delivered to Col^o Henry
Hollingsworth. We do not think you ought to give a higher Price
for Pork than our former Limitation. We enclose you an Order on
Col^o George Dashiell for £10,000 agreeable to your Request and send
you £250 of the new Bills of Credit, equal to £10,000 which you are
to pass at 40 for 1 and in no other Manner and you are not to give
a superior Price in this Money (calculating at that Rate) to what
you allow in Continental Money. With these Sums, we think you
will be easy and that they will very much accelerate your Purchases.
As the New Money will answer all the Purposes of Certificates in
Payment for Cattle, we do not think it will be necessary for you to
issue any. We think that any Provision which you are directed to
purchase ought to be taken in Payment for the 15 p C^l due from
those Classes who have not furnished a Recruit. We wish you to
forward the Corn without Delay and as you will be best informed of
the Situation of the Enemy's Vessels in the Bay, we must rely on
your Discretion in this Business, to chuse a proper Time to send
it to the Head of Elk to be delivered to Col^o Hollingsworth. Our
armed Boats were sent down the Bay against the Enemy's Vessels,
before we received yours and think they may answer the Purpose
for which you require them.
Same order as to Gen^l Hooper, respecting Whaland of the I3th
Ins^t enclosed, with respect to I. Betsworth, Tho^s Price & an English-
man called Jack.

Liber C B
No. 23
September
13
p. 194

Wednesday 13^th September 1780
Present as on yesterday.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Thomas Price
Two hundred and fifty Pounds of the new Emission of the State
to be delivered over to Col^o Joseph Dashiell Commissary for Wor-
cester County and to be by him Accounted for.
That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Price Eighty seven
Pounds ten shillings due him p Acc^t passed by the Dep^y Aud.
That the said Treasurer pay to Capt. Thomas Lansdale Twenty
five Pounds Eleven shillings and nine Pounds, fourteen shillings
and Eleven Pence farthing of the new Emission due him p Acc^ta
passed by the D. Aud.