22 Letters to the Governor and Council

	January 16	Colo Gist to State of Maryland Dr
	Brown Book No. 3	1777 Septr 26. To Cash paid Lt Allison on Act of the
	Letter 28	Reg'	£12.	. 0.	. 0
		To Do paid Capt. J. H. Lowe Do	60.	. 0.	. 0
		Nov. 21 To Do paid Thos. Gordon Do	22.	.10.	. 0
		Dec. 12. To Do paid Do Do	75-	. 0.	. 0
		1778
		Jany 13 To Do Do Do Do	112.	.10.	. 0
			282.	. 0.	. 0
		To Cash paid you by Mr Paca Do	67.	.10.	. 0
			349-	.10.	. 0
		Balance due State of Maryland on
		Settlement with the Auditor in
		Annapolis of which the above
		£349.10 is part	£379.	.10.	. 8
		1780 To Cash from The Treasurer]
		sent by Mr Keeports	10000
			10379.	.10.	. 8
		By Otho H. Williams for [illegible]	750-	. — .	. —
			£9.629.	.10.	. 8

		Thus stands Genl Gists acct on the Auditor Genls Books Jany 16. 1781 U. Forrest
	January 16 Red Book No. 28 Letter 66	[Robert Goldsborough and Gustavus Scott, Cambridge, to Gov. Lee.] In the present alarming Situation of our affairs we shou'd be want- ing in attention to the Inhabitants of this Town & County if we did not apply in the most earnest manner to your Excellency to supply us with the means of defending ourselves from an Enemy so lately & so frequently almost at our Doors: a particular Part of the State when invaded has a Right to expect assistance from the more power- full parts of it. Local circumstances render it Difficult for the In- habitants of this Shore exposed as they are to the utmost Calamaties of War & Piracies to expect assistance from our more powerfull neighbours of the western shore: the greater then unquestionably is the need that we shou'd have the means of Defence in our own hands. We can not but hope, it is a fact, not within your Excellency's Knowledge that out of 1700 effective men in this County, not more than 150 of the number can be armed, not a single field peice, nor