392 Journal and Correspondence.

December
28

this requisition it will be utterly imposible for me to comply with
unless Teams impressed for the purpose as they are not to be had
on hire in my District at any rate, and I have but three Public Teams
here which is barely sufficient to Haul Hay and Firewood to this
Post.
I must therefore be under the necessity of applying to Your Excel-
lency and the Council to give such orders for the Impressing of
Teams (as well for the Purpose of transporting Flour to the Army
as the Cloathing above mentioned) as to Your Hon^ble Board may
seem meet

December
28

[Moses Rawlings, Fort Frederick, to Gov. Lee]

Sir I have the honour to acquaint your Excellency that M^r Reed
has just return'd from Phila. by whom the Board of war informs
me that the prisoners will be up in a few days, and as I have heard
Nothing from your Excel^y respecting the Guard, I begin to grow
very uneasy for fear they should arrive before I am Provided with
a guard to receive them
I have sent M^r Jacobs To the Treasury of our State for seventy
five thousand dollars By a request of Coll^o Blaine, Commissary
General, who informs me he has a Draft on the Treasury for that
sum. If the whole money Cannot be had at Annapolis I hope your
Excellency will be pleased to Give me an order on the high Sheriff
of Washington County for what Public money he Can Spare, for
I am in great Distress for Cash in order to make good some Con-
tracts

Your Excellency will please To inform me Respecting the Guard.

December
29
Red Book
No. 25
No. 45

[Invoice of 6 Bales Woolens purchased by W^m Young in the
State of Virginia and Consigned M^r Daniel Bowly for Sale p Sloop
Polly.]

M

^No J @ 5-5 Bales Blue and Green half'

thicks 300 y^ds each @ 7^rs
dutch p yard J

1 Pieces s d

|i3i2 4..0

i Bale green double Cloth

I95..0..0

Commission 5 p C*

75-I.-3

474.. 16.. i|

Advance 4600 p Cent

21841.. I.. 9

Virg^a Cur.

22315.. i7..ioi

25 p C* to reduce it into Maryland Cur.

5578.. 19- 5

27894.. 1 7- 3i

To Sloop Polly for freight

I66..I3-. 4

£28061...10.. 7^