406 Journal and Correspondence.

January 19

again, tho' I did from the Present want, thinking it best, if you want
the flower Carryed to any part of the Bay, Please inform me. Like-
wise about the Corn, there is vessells to be got as Cheap as any where,
to Gary anything in the Bay

January 23
Red Book
No. 26
Letter
No. II

[Thos Bond, Philadelphia, to His Excellency Thomas
Sim Lee, Esqr.]

Dear Sir After a very Cold & disagreable Ride I have at length
got home & regretted very much my not returning to Annapolis &
enjoying the Agreable Society I met with there. Your Civilities
demand my warmest acknowledgments & believe me Sir I hold
myself ready to return you any Services in my Power, but must beg
a further Extension on your Part which I do the more readily as
the Business I now trouble you with is pro bono publico; I still
imagine the Hogshead of Medicines in your State Store to be part
of a Cargo we were to have received from M^r Morris Merch^l of
this Town & I am the more inclined to that Belief from the follow-
ing Circumstances, viz their coming from Cambridge where all that
we have received came from & from the inclosed Invoice which I
think they are a part of, as all those Medicines marked thus + have
not come to hand, Our Apothecary General Doc. Craigie is con-
vinced they must be ours; I shall be glad to hear from you
what the Government of Maryland have determin'd about them be
assured the Army stand much in need of most of the Articles I saw
taken out of the hh^d while in Annapolis, if they shou'd incline to
deliver them over to the Continent, I shall be obliged by your
ordering the Store Keeper to forward them as soon as the weather
breaks up to my Care, I beg you to accept of my best wishes for your
Health & Happiness

Brown
Book No. i
Letter
No. 27
January 24

[George Washington, Headquarters, Morristown, to Gov. Lee]

Sir I have been honored with your Excellency's letter of Dec^r 26^th
and its enclosure. The immediate attention of government to the dis-
tresses of the Army, and the effectual assistance promised from the
operation of the act cannot but claim the acknowlegements of every
good citizen. I flatter myself from your exertions, and those of
the other States from which we derive our supplies, that we shall
not again experience a like evil.
I have the honor to be with the greatest regard, Your Excellency's
Most ob: Serv^t G^o Washington

January 25
Red Book
No. 30
Letter
No. 21

[Geo p. Keeports Baltimore to Gov. Lee]

May It Please Your Excellency I have at Length Engaged a
Sufficient Number of Waggons to Take the Cloathing to Camp