Letters to the Council. 459

M^r Jon* Hudson has a Quantity (about 600) Blankets they are
Very thick and of a Good Quality but Sir Rather Small not more
then Five Feet square his price is £125 p^r piece
The Inclosed is an Invoice of the B^ble3 of Powder Delivered M^r
Chase p^r order There was not any Furniture Delivered with the Ten
Four Pounders I have Bo* 20 pair of Shoes a 50 Dollars p^r pair
to Supply the Imediate Want of the Recruits
Your Excellency will Please to Remember me and Send me up
some Money to Enable me to pay off the Ballances due for the Teems
that were Emplyd Taking Cloathing to Camp & for the Shoes and
officers Buttons .&c.

Red Book
No. 30

[John Green to the Governor and Council]

Honourable Gentlemen Whereas John Cain Shipt with me on
board the boat Dolphin January 25^th In the State Servis and James
Meradith on the 5^th Day of Feb^ry 1780 And the Commodore have-
ing Compleated his pay list up to the first Day of March with out
my knowing anything of it he only will pay them from that Date
up to the Day of their Discharge without your Order which they
look to me for their Wages

March 29

[Joshua Stevenson to the Council]

Gentlemen I have procured about Eight thousand Bushels of
Wheat at twenty pounds p^r Bushel & three hundred Barrels of flour
at sixty pounds p^r Hundred, & hundred and fifteen Bushels of Corn
at ten pound p^r Bushel, as to the praisers I Cal'd on M^r Edward
Talbott & M^r Samuel Brittain to appraise wheat and then allow'd
twenty pounds p^r Bushel, and I seized fifteen hundred and forty two
Bushels of wheat & two hundred Sixty & Eight Barrels of flour,
Cal'd French property, but Orderd not to Remove it.
p. S. I have sent to the head of Elk one hundred and Seven Bar-
rels of flour

March 29

[Rich'd Dorsey, Balto Town, to Thos. Sim Lee Esqr.]

Sir I should Esteem it a Peticular Favor If you'll give Capt.
Hambleton and order for the Remainder of the Linnen allow^d me
by the State of Maryland I would not Have Troubled your Excel-
ency but am Just a Going to Camp, and want to get it before I Leave
Town

March 29

Red Book

No. 26
Letter
No. 40

[Wm. Hemsley Anns, to the Council]

Gentlemen I will supply you with 200 bb^s of sound Merchantable
common flour at twenty Pounds p O and 12 Dollars for the bb^ll or
if you choose superfine Flour instead of common, it shall be made

Red Book
No. 23
Letter
No. 66
March 29
[The sale
was made]