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Brown Book
No. 5
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We have in our former letters dwelt so forcibly on the several
matters contained in the General's letter, that it is now become al-
most unnecessary for us to say any thing more on them. But when
we consider the season for operation wears fast away, the small force
we have now in the field, being still fed in a scanty and uncertain
manner, the hourly expectation of the fleet and Army of our ally, on
our coast, and that the commander in chief, as well as ourselves, are
as yet totally uninformed, what are to be our expectations on the
subjects of our former letters; Be assured Sir, we feel an anxiety
congenial with his. You will therefore we are perswaded, pardon
us for being thus solicitous, when we again intreat you, in the most
earnest, in the most urgent manner, to use every exertion in your
power to engage your State, to a speedy and decisive compliance
with our former requisitions. The two points we would wish to
impress most forcibly on yours, and the minds of the legislature of
your state, are the immediately forwarding your quota of troops
necessary to compleat your battalions in the Continental Army and
of supplies of provisions agreeable to the estimate inclosed you in
our letter of the Instant. At the same time we would not wish
you to consider any part of our former requisitions, as become in
the least degree unnecessary, on the contrary, we are more strongly
convinced, that they are already as small as the important objects
in view can possibly admit of. We only mention the two first, as
the most immediately and indispensibly necessary. For, reinforced
as the enemy now are, by the from the reduction of Charles-
town, momently expect will be made on our weak and
almost resistless army, should this event happen, whilst in this State,
we seriously dread the result.
From the well known indefatigable attention of your State to the
welfare of the united States, we cannot entertain a doubt of its
exertions, at this interesting conjuncture. And we most earnestly
intreat you, to give us the earliest information of the final determina-
tions of your state on the subjects of this and our former letters.
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June 20
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[Bennett Dyson, Charles County, to Gov. Lee]
Sir I Received your Letter Requesting me to acquaint you with
what provision we have been able to procure under the Act for the
Immediate supply of the Army. I have Received Six hundred
and Sixty Bushels Corn, and have this day sent off Four hundred and
Fifty Bushels in a Vessel lately Built to be delivered to Col. Henry
Hollingsworth at the head of Elk, and shall forward the Balance as
soon as the Vessel Returns. It has not been in my power to forward
the Corn before, as there was no Vessels that wou'd answer for
Carrying Grain. I have Informed the General Assembly of what I
lia-v"c been able to procure and what I have forwarder!
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