396 Proceedings and Correspondence

April 12
Liber No. 78
p. 127

want Provisions We therefore request you to purchase Provisions
for them and if you are not able to procure on Purchase, we hereby
authorise and empower to seize such Provisions as may be necessary
for the Troops, live Cattle will be most acceptable

Ibid.

[Council to Richard Dallam, Esqr.]

By a letter received from the Marquis, he informs us that when he
was going up the Bay two Men came on Board the Fleet with the
Detachment under his Command, having been induced to mistake
them for British, and gave every Intelligence in their Power, offering
to guide him to several Places on the Shore and telling him they had
been on Board the Hope, and had supplied the Enemy with Provisions
and offered to pilot them to a Place where they had a Sloop loaded
with Flour and ready to slip off to Portsmouth; in Consequence of
which the Marquis dispatched Major M^cPherson and six Men with
one of those who gave the Information with Intent to seize the Sloop
and Flour they were to land in Gun Powder Creek where the Sloop
lay as the Marquis had not heard from Major McPherson he seems
uneasy for Fear some Disaster might have befallen him. We request
you will immediately make Inquiry for the Major and render him
every necessary Aid in your Power. You will also give the Marquis
at the Head of Elk the earliest Information you may collect on this
Subject.

April 13
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 70

Friday 13^th April 1781

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Denton Ham-
mond thirty Dollars per Account passed by the Aud. Gen^l
That the said Treasurer pay to William Goldsmith one hundred
and nine pounds ten Shillings due him per Acc^t passed bv the Aud.
Gen^l
Commissions issued to John H. Nicholls appointed Captain
Thomas Nicholls Lieut. & John Jones En. of a Select Company of
Militia raised in Montgomery County.

April 13,
1781
From
original
draft

[Sp^l Council Instructions to Mes^s Gold and Emory]

You are to proceed with all possible Dispatch to Phil^a for the
Arms and Ammunition and on your way call on W^m Deford near
Churchhill, who you are to appoint Waggon Master on this Occasion
and inform him and other Team Drivers whom you may have
occasion to take into the service, when you think they may arrive at
the City so that they may meet with no Delay there. If you find
that the Enemy are destined for the Delaware, you'd do well to
apply to our members in congress for a strong Guard to attend the
Waggons as low as M^cClanes Tavern ab^{ six miles below the red
Lyon at which place a Guard from this State will be ready to releive