384 Letters to the Governor and Council

August 1

me Govern^r Livingston has three Times refused letting her go in
without a Pass from the Governeur of the State she came from.
Some of her Effects are left behind with me to send up by first safe
Conveyance, from this you'll perceive that she has left this State and
I believe without any Expectation of Returning to reside here again,
and as she is now, I presume, become a Residenta of the Jerseys
Y^e Gov^r of th^t State, were he so acquainted, might w^th more Pro-
priety take her Case under Consideration.
However If y^r Excell^y & Hon^rs could be of any Service to her,
you'd greatly oblige her, I would take Care to contrive her whatever
should be transmitted to me from y^r Honors.

August 1

[Philip Casson, Caroline County, to the Governor and Council.]

M^r William Douglass being in a bad State of Health, refused to
act under the Act to procure a sufficient number of Horses for Light
Horses and for carriage &^c whereupon the Lieutenant appointed me
for that Purpose; In consequence whereof, I have taken into my
possession, eight Horses from Nonjurors, mostly fit for Draught
Horses, the Light Troop now raising in this County having procured
nearly all the Horses fit for Light Horses, therefore am doubtfull
of Gitting any really fit for that service the remaining 5 I hope to get
in a few days — the Horses I have taken are but thin and will not be fit
for service unless fed well some time, which I shall take care to have
done

August 1

[Rich'd Dallam Abingdon, to Gov. Lee.]

I expect a Number of Substitutes for the Draughts of the Militia
of this County will be brought in within in a few days — And as meat
provisions are very hard to be obtained I shall be glad to Secure
orders where I am [to] order them or what Officers will be order^d to
receive them.
We have two Companies of Select Militia for this County a return
of these Officers shall be sent Your Excellency as soon as they come
to hand, I shall be in want of knapsacks & Canteens to Euip them
shall be oblige if your Excellency will Please to inform me where they
are to be obtained
The Collector of Horses for this County has got sufficient to
make up two Teems & at present I am much in want to Cart the pub-
lic flour & therefore should be glad of an order to him to deliver
them to me & Liberty to engage Waggoners to drive them from the
Draughts of the militia of this County

August 1
[" Indorsed
Rejeck'd
by Go &
Council "]

[Thos. Duffy, Ann^s To his Excellency the Governor and the hon^ble
the Council of the State of Maryland]

Your petitioner a subject of the State of Pennsylvania sometime
in the month of January last was unhappily cast away; by which