368 Letters to the Governor and Council

July 25

and Enrolled himself in the Militia — And has Complyed with all laws
that has been Established, and haveing no other subsistance for him-
self e and a Large helpless family of Orphans but the Property — Now
Seized on which if they are deprived of will perhaps be the means of
reducing the Orphans to a Public Charge as they are all but Your
Petitioner Incapable Getting a Liveing, and having no Other way
of Redress earnestly — Begs Your Honours would Suspend the Sale
of said Property untill the next Meeting of the General Assembly &
Your Petitioner shall as in duty Bound ever Pray.
We Whose names are hereunto Subscribed know the above Facts
to be true Given under Our hands this 25^th day of July 1781.
Ja^s Bond of Jos. Lemuel Howard, J. Taylor, Rich^d Dallam,
Ja^s McComas, Jacob Bond, W^m Smithson, Dan. Scott, W^m Bond
son of Jos

July 25
Red Book
No. 22
Letter 9

[Dan'l of St T. Jenifer, Port tobacco, to Gov. Lee.]

Agreeable to your Excellency s Ltre of the 17^th Cur. I have sent
by M^r Ig^s Luckett 190 hats taken from M^r Ridgate, a List of which

is enclosed, the prices he had set upon them (which I thought too

high) I heretofore enclosed and have left to your Excellency & the
Council to fix the prices. I have returned all the surplus horses 15 in
N^o the Rest are very fat as your Ex^cy may see by the apparance of
those two in the Cart
M^r Leigh has not yet furnished the Waggon he promised but has
engaged to do it next week.
I am obliged to tear up my old Books for paper the Com^y has the
above ment^d List

July 25
Red Book
No. 8
Letter 3

[Tho M'Kean, President, Philadelphia, to Gov. Lee.]

I have the honor to inclose you an Act of Congress of the 23^d
instant and another connected therewith of the 24^th for the purpose
of procuring a loan of thirty thousand dollars for the distressed Citi-
zens of South Carolina and Georgia, who have been driven from
their country and possessions by the enemy and are lately arrived in
this City; and also for obtaining charitable donations for the further
relief of said sufferers.
Your sensations on reading what is already written have, I know,
anticipated every thing I would wish on the occasion.

July 25

[Chs. Wiesenthal, Baltimore Town to Gov. Lee.]

According to an Order received from the Council I have fitted out
a Chest for the Troops which I think Sufficiently compleat unless
the surgeon should chuse to add thereto, as which I will procure if
possible