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delayed in their Embarkation. You must at all Events have sixty
or seventy here on the 19^th you will therefore employ what Persons
are necessary to assist you in driving them here.

September

17
Liber No. 78
p. 282

[Council to Charles Blake, Esqr.]

About 2500 or 3000 French Troops will embark at this Place on
Tomorrow or next Day. We have engaged to furnish the General
with 200 Head of Cattle; 150 at the least to be drove down to Kent
Point they must be there on the 19^th and 20^th ready to be delivered
to the General's Order. You must not fail to have the Cattle there
in Time, as the Consequence will be the detaining the Transports
and disgusting the Officers. You will employ as many Persons as
may be necessary to get the Cattle there at the Time appointed. If it
should not be practicable to have the whole there in Time, you must
collect as many as you possibly can. You are sensible this Business
is of the utmost Importance and merits and we doubt not, will have
your particular Attention. We have sent you by this opportunity
£500. As a very laudable Spirit prevails in your County and they
have manifested a Disposition to render every Aid to crown the
present Operations with Success, we wish you to procure in Addition
to the Number already assigned to your County, five hundred Head
and have sent you a further sum of £500. You will also buy and
send with the Cattle, sixty Head of good Weathers and Lambs to
Kent Point for the use of the French and let us know the Price you
give and the Expence of driving. When you are in Want of a further
Supply of Money, inform us and you shall have it

Ibid.

[Council to Colo Moses Rawlings & Colo. Thomas Price.]

We are in Want of a considerable Quantity of Whiskey and some
Cyder Brandy for the Army. It is to be furnished as soon as possible ;
we therefore request you to procure immediately, and forward to
George Town, all the Whiskey and Cyder Brandy in your County,
to be delivered to M^r Richardson or his Assistant M^r Beall, for which
Purpose we have sent you a Thousand Pounds and more shall be
furnished if necessary. If you should meet with any Difficulty in
purchasing these Articles, you must seize them and give Certificates ;
you will also impress Waggons, if they cannot be hired, for transport-
ing the Whiskey and Brandy to George Town.

Ibid.

[Council to Thomas Richardson, Esqr., Comm'y for
Montgomery County.]

We are in Want of a considerable Quantity of Whiskey and
Cyder Brandy for the Army. It is to be furnished as soon as possible,
we therefore request you to procure immediately, all the Whiskey and
Cyder Brandy in your County. We have sent you by Col^o Blaine

Ibid,
p. 283