244 Letters to the Governor and Council

May 15

under such restriction & formalities as your Excellency & Council
will think Proper. I have Recomended to Mess" Ridley & Pringle to
take great care that the said Biscuit or any part of the Provisions may
not fall into the Power of the Enemy, I hope you will please to Give
the necessary Instructions, so all possible protection & aid may be
given, so as to secure the same.

May 15

[Philip Quinton, Worcester County To His Excellency
Thomas Simm Lee Esq^r]

The inclosed Commission with the resignation thereon was handed
to the first Col^o of the Battalion to which I belong on the day of the
date thereof in order to be forwarded to your Excellency but was
neglected and given bact to me on the 13^th february last it being all-
together inconvenant for me to serve therefore beg some other per-
son may be appointed —

May 1 5
Red Book
No. 5
Letter 82

[Dan'l of St. Thos Jenifer and Daniel Carroll, Philadelphia, to
Gov. Lee.]

The late scale of depreciation setled by the Presd^t and Council of
this State has had such an effect upon the minds of the people at
large in this City, that no paper money will pass but upon the most
ruinous terms; nor will it be in our power to continue here without
Your Excellency and the Council can fall upon some other mode of
supply than that of Paper money, we know of but one, and that
is to direct the Grinding up some wheat at the head of the Bay into
Superfine Flour: this Article will command hard money without
which nothing can be done at this place. M^r Joseph Gilpin would
undertake this business and execute it with dispatch. Col Hollings-
worth the Comm^ry Gen^l has too much on his hands to allow him to
pay proper attention to this mode of supply, besides he might be from
the head of Elk when the Order might reach that place, and our
situation is such that delay would be distressing.

May 16

[Memorial, Elkridge, A. A. County, to Col. James Brice.]

We whose names are underwritten Do hereby Certifie, that being
near Neighbours to Nicholas Selby, Do know that he has for above
three years Past Laboured under Great indisposition of body, which
has we firmly Believe at Length rendered him Incapable of Labour-
ing to Support Himself & family, and in order that they might not
suffer for the Necessaries of Life, his Neighbours (at least those
who have Young Children) have lately made him up a Small School,
that thereby he may be enabled to support his family — and as we
understand he is Drafted to Serve in the Militia, and having as we
conceive no Probable Way of Gitting off, As he has not Latelv
apply'd to any Phisician, he Having formerly tried Medicine in Vain ;
Humanity to our fellow Creature, has inclined us thus to Inform you