376 Letters to the Governor and Council

July 31

[Petition of John Robertson to the Governor and Council]

Whereas your Petitioner hath been drafted and known himself to
be incapable of rendering the service to the state required from
disease, which your petitioner hopes will appear to your Excellency
& Honours by the inclosed certificate, your Petitioner humbly re-
quests he may be discharged from the Service and your petitioner as
in duty bound will ever pray &c &c.

July 31^st 1781
I hereby Certify that John Robertson hath Laboured under a
Rheumatic complaint upward of four years which appears to be im-
movable by remedies; and I am of opinion the disease is such as to
render him utterly unfit for military duty
G. R. Brown

July 30

[W. Smith, Nath^l Smith, Thomas Johnson, Baltimore, to Stephen
Steward Esq^r Baltimore]

The Commissioners for the Defence of Baltimore Town &c
having taken into Considation your proposals for purchasing the
Gaily fitted out for the defence of Patapsco River &c. do agree to take
for said Gaily fifteen hundred & fifty pounds Specie or other money
eaquel in Value thereto — or when the whole of the Accounts are Col-
lected 5 p C^t at the foot of the Acc^ts will be excepted, the money to
be paid when the Gaily is dellevered — an Answer to the above pro-
posals is expected in ten days from this date after which time they
are not to be Binding.

July 31

[And. Buchanan, Balt. Co^ty to His ExcelF Tho^s Sim Lee Esq^r]

I am requested to inform you by Co^l Nicholson that his Com-
pany of light Horse will be ready in a few days and wait your Orders.
You will likewise forward their Commissions

July 31

[Adam Hunter, Fredericksburg, to His Excellency Gen Smallwood
Annapolis]

In my Brothers Absence who has resided at his Plantation in
Culpepper ever since our late Alarm of the Enemy coming this way,
I have your favour of 29^th curr by Express, to which am sorry I
cannot return a satisfactory answer. We have long discontinued
the manufactory of small Arms of which none remain on hand, &
the Workmen employed in that Branch, are so dispersed that we
believe it would be difficult matter to engage them again. I shall
tomorrow transmit your letter to my Brother, to whom I beg leave
to refer you for Satisfaction on this Subject, but am apprehensive
he will not be able to furnish the Accoutrements mentioned. I am
with the Greatest Respect