488 Journal and Correspondence.

May 4

[Ja. Hutchings to Gov. Lee]

Sir Upon my Sloop being impressed the other Day, I wrote to The
hon^ble Jerimiah Chase Esq^r informing him, that my Sloop was not
in Condition to proceed down the Bay, and that I must beg the In-
dulgence of your Excell^cy and the Council for a few Days to put
her into better Condition, if your Excell^cy and the Council insisted
upon her going into the Service. I have since put her into a better
State, by having her caulked, and I now send her over for the
direction of your Excell^cy if she can be of any use to or in the Ser-
vice. But I fear she will be found too shallow and too small for the
Service. My Sloop was going up the Bay, but the Fleet coming
down, she proceeds to Annapolis, to receive Your Excell^y3 Orders
I having received no answer from M^r Chase, I fear my Letter
miscarried. I thank your Excellency and the Council for letting my
Sloop return Home with the Hay

May 5
Red Book

No. 30
Letter
No. 8

Mays
Red Book
No. 30
Letter
No. 9

[George Rankin to Council]
[Offers to sign currency.]

[Geo p. Keeports, Baltimore, to His Excellency
Thomas Sim Lee Esqr]

May It Please Your Excellency I Yesterday Took the Liberty
of Giving M^r Jonathan Hudson a Draft on you in part for the
Blankets Bo^t of him For Two Thousand Pounds At Sight and this
Day have Given him another Draft for Thirty Thousand Pounds
without Setting and Time for Payment. I Hope your Excellency
will Excuse my Freedom as I have no other way of Getting Rid of
A Continental Dun

Mays

[Jona. Hudson, Balt., to Gov. Lee]

Dear Sir The Bearer hereof M^r Peter Blake will present an order
to you from M^r Keyport in my favour for thirty thousand Pounds
this Curr^y w^ch you will oblige me much to pay as quick as Possible.
M^r Blake has come Express from Virg^a for this Money in Order
to pay for a Vessel I have bo^t part of the money is already paid
w^ch I shall forfeit If the whole is not p^d by a certain day, & M^r Key-
pot gives me every assurance that I sh^d have the money for the
Blankets the beginning of this Week, under these circumstances I
hope I need say no more to Urge you to pay this Bill

May 6

[J. Randall, Head of Elk to His Exc'y Thomas Sim Lee]

Sir Since writing to your Excellency the 28^th April, I have dis-
pos'd of the Mix'd Cloth & Shalloon and have purchas'd white
sufficient for fifty three Vests & Breeches which was all I could get