426 Journal and Correspondence.

February 12
Brown
Book No. 3
Letter
No. II

[Mordecai Gist Camp Morris Town to the Honble
J. T. Chase, Esqr.]

Dear Sir Col^o Woolford informs me that he some time since
recommended four of his Serjeants whose termes are now expired
to be commissioned in the line (viz^l) Jacob Crawford, John Law,
Caleb Mason & John Sears.
I wou'd wish these to be appt^d to his Regiment as also Jacob
Rittenhouse Shoemaker to the 4^th These Officers request you may not
app* any of the Serjeants recommended from the first Brigade to
serve in the second

February 12
Red Book
No. 29
Letter
No. 14

[J. Gunby Camp near Morristown to His Excell'y
Tho's S. Lee Esqr.]

Dear Sir I received yours of the 26^th Jan^y by M^r Keeport the
£10,000 you mention for reEnlisting the men of the first Brigade
was left by M^r Keeport in Phil^a I expect to receive it by M^r John
Randall in a few • days, if I could be empowered to reEnlist men
that have from four to eight or ten months to Serve I believe the
greatest part we have that is not for the war might be taken but those
whose time will shortly expire will not be detained, for the bounty
you Offer them, I shall use my utmost endeavour as soon as I receive
the money to re-Enlist the men agreable to your Instructions, & if
the sum you have sent be not sufficient I will give you the earliest
notice what I think will; I am highly honoured by the Promotion
of my Serj^ts Recommended to Col^o Forrest

February 13
Brown
Book No. 7
Letter
No. 63

[DeKalb, Camp near Morristown to His Excellency The Governor
& the honorable the Members of the Council of Maryland]

Honourable Gentlemen I take the Liberty to address you in
behalf of two field officers of your State whose Service and present
circumstances intitle them to your particular notice, the one is
Colonel Price: That officer, during one year, laid under the weight
of imputations as mortifying as they proved groundless, after a
trial long wished for, he was acquited of every charge. No sooner
had he got over this misfortune, than he found himself Superseded
in his rank by the appointment of a lunior officer to that of Brigadier,
under those circumstances he could not consistent with that pride,
so necessary to keep up a true military Spirit, act in his military
Capacity, and as those reasons which preclude his reassuming his
functions, can no more be removed, the good of the service dictates
that such a provision may be made for him, as will induce him to
resign a commission which he can not hold with honour to himself
or advantage to the State, his early and Zealous Sacrifices, the
State of his private fortune, greatly impaired by them, apply to your
generosity for such a provision, and I beg leave to recommend that