Letters to the Council. 379

[Geo. p. Keeports, Baltimore to Gov. Lee]

May It Please Your Excellency on my Return here Saturday
Morning I Serch'd the Stores in Town and have Found in Mess"
Sterling and Alcocks Store 48 Largest Best Blanketts @ £ 100
Each. Mess" Hughs & Williamsons Store 28 d^o a Size Smaller @
£70 Each and at another Store in Town d^o a £80 Each. I have
Bo^t the 28 & the Five at the Prices and have Engaged the 48 of
Sterling & Alcock for which I am to pay them by thursday Next
If not they have the Liberty of Disposing of them otherwise there is
About 60 more Blanketts in Town of Different Sizes those that are
of the Size & Quallity of them I have Engaged of S & Alcock they
Ask 300 Dollars p^r peice and some of the small Size but Good
Blanketts a £ 60 p^r peice which Prices I have Thought too High to
make a Purchase of without Advice
The £5000 I Received Last did but Little more then pay the Bal-
lance I owed Hatters and for 136 Hats more then I had made a
Return of in my Account. I have the Favour of the Barer Capt.
John Lorah to Wait on your Excellency with this Letter by whom
you will Please to send me more Money to Enable me to Comply with
the Payments I have Engaged to Make.
I did not meet with that Success Purchasing Linnen Saturday
Last I Expected there was but a Few Yards Bro^l to Market and the
Price they Ask'd from £8..io to g..i o p^r y^d
There is some Irish Linnen of yard Wide may be Bo^l from
£8.. 10 to 9.. 10 p^r yard If It wou'd do at the price the Quallity will
Answer.

There is about 30 Pair of Good Buck Skin Breeches to be had @
£70 p^r pair which will Come Cheaper then Cloth Breeches Linned
Throughout with Linnen and be much more Serviceable
Your Excellency will Please to Advise me if I am to Purchase
any Irish Linnen and the Breeches at the Price
NB. There is about 600 yards of Coarse J y^d Brown Cloth &
Coating to be had the Coating will Answer for Sacks & Come @
£17.. 10 p^r y^d and the Cloth will do for overalls Comes @ £7-10

p^ry^d

December 6
Red Book
No. 20
Letter
No. 190

[Jacob Giles Junr. A. C. of Ps. Mount Pleasant, to His Excellency
Thos. Sim Lee Esqr]

Sir Your favour of the 19^th Ult. I duly received would have
been glad could you have supplyed me with some Cash as it is
impossible to get supplyed fast enough from Philadelphia, however
I Can go on no faster that I am supplyed as People in general wont
trust an Hour, our Navigation being impeded by the Ice so soon
this Season is an unfortunate circumstance as it Prevents supplys

December 8