Letters to the Council. 451

[Trade with Bermuda]

[Joseph Robinson, owner and master of the Sloop Unity, Henry
Tucker, Mate, and the five mariners, mostly negroes, swear before
Henry Courtenay of Baltimore County that they will try to carry
cargo of corn to Bermuda in accordance with license. Certificate is
filed from Benjamin Bascome and George Bascome that Benjamin
Darrell, sailing master of the Unity, on December 25, loaded 1010
bushels of corn, 1000 feet of board and 4,000 bricks.]

March 13

[Elija Cole Head of Elk to His Excellency the Governor & Council]

Gentlemen I Receiv'd yours of the 12^th of february Directed to
Joseph Gilpin Esq^r and Myselfe, Requesting We should send you a
fuller Information Under Oath Respecting M^r Ewings Conduct,
Agreeable to Infermition Lodged With you M^r Ewing Aludes To
That Charge of french Agency and Speculators ALone, Therefore
you Will Have The Pleasure of seeing The Dispositions Taken
Before M^r Hughse and M^r Miller On The Ocation, I Ment Not To
Ingure M^r Ewings Carracter, But Mearly To Do the Publick Jus-
tice, But His Apointment and Ours Being so Diamatricably Oposit
It Was Imposable for To Act Without Interfering With Each
Other, as M^r Cole By His Deposicion Has Made It apeare That, the
Jentlemen Whome I Mentioned, When with you Own'd A Part of
That Wheat; We are His Pardners And That He Took them In In
order To fulfil His Contract With M^r Ewing Therefore It Renders
it onnessesary for me To Say any Thing more, On The Ocation.
I Have Inclosed you a Ruf Return of What flower and Corn We
Have Colected The flower Is all sent on and The Corn Is Consum'd
This Post The Wheat In The Mills I Expect Will Be Immediately
Manufactured and sent on as The millers with us Is all Got to Work
Should Be glad of your Advice And Instructions In Respect of our
further Proceeding

NB fron The Best Information we are Able To give you at This
Time of The Quantity of flower That Will Be Receiv'd In This
Country Will Be About 2000 Barrells and about 3000 Bushels of
Indian Corn
Elij^a Cole Sam^l Gilpin

March 13
Red Book
No. 23
Letter
No 79
(See
Liber C C

No. 22

p. 65)

[Lloyd Beall, Capt. Lieut. ;^th Mary'd Regt. Geo. Town To the
Clothier at Annapolis]

Please to deliver Dennis Ternan, Cornelius Morriss, W^m Hurley,
Edward Claney, Phillip Sullivan Jn^o Daviss Sam^l Daviss, Thompson
Murrey, Jn^o Loveday Jn^o Zaplin the Bounty of Cloathing they being
recruits belonging to the Seventh Maryland Reg^t W^m Hurley
Edward Claney Philip Sullivan Sam^l Daviss Cloathing you'l please
to Deliver to Dennis Ternan as these men Cannot attend for them,
on account of their being naked

March 14