554 Proceedings and Correspondence

August 10
Liber No. 78
p. 243

[Council to Col. Samuel Smith.]

We have sent draught Horses for four Waggons to M^r Poe, and
request you to forward the Cloathing Tents &^ca in them to M^r Muir
we shall want at least five hundred suits of soldiers Cloathing in
Addition to those already procured, and request you to obtain them
as soon as possible, and to enable you, we can supply Tobacco or
new Money, forward the Rume

Ibid.

[Council to James Calhoun, Esqr.]

M^r Chrysal informs us that he has received fifty three Barrels of
Flour out of which seventeen only are fit for use, the other thirty
six be condemned. If this Flour was sent in Consequence of our
order of the 6^th Instant, we request you will immediately forward
as much sound Flour as will compleat that order including the Seven-
teen Barrels received. We have frequent Occasion to give Directions
to supply the several Posts within this State with Provisions which

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we wish to prevent in Future, and request you to enquire into the
State of the Magazine of Provisions at all Posts where there are
Issuies and keep them regularly and constantly supplied.

Ibid.

[Council to President of the Special Council.]

We have the Honor to enclose Copies of Letters this Day received.
The pressing Demands for Horses induces us to solicit your Board
to give every Aid to the Collectors on the Eastern Shore to procure
them, we are informed that in many Counties few are collected, and
unless every County furnishes the Number lately appertained by this
Board, the Service must be materially injured. We beg Leave also
to request you to assist and direct the Lieutenants of the several
Counties to forward immediately the Recruits Draughts &^ca raised
under the late Laws.

Ibid.

[Council to Andrew Buchanan, Esqr.]

By Letters from the Marquis de la Fayette and from M^r McHenry
his Aid de Camp dated at new Castle the 6^th Current we are informed
that the British Troops are landing at York or Gloster and fortifying
on the Gloster Side, and York is to be a place of Arms. Lord Corn-
wallis is in York River he has with him the whole Detachment except
the Garrison of Portsmouth. It is supposed that a principal Port of
this Fleet was originally intended for New York, but in Consequence
of the Arrival of a Vessel with Letters from Gen^l Clinton it was
suspended and the present Measures adopted. There is reason to
believe that a french fleet will speedily be on our Coast. The Marquis
request immediate Assistance from the Troops in this State to enable
him to oppose the Enemy in their present Position From various