388 Letters to the Governor and Council

August 4

Land mostly clear of Timber and he also being Weak & Infirm and
Conscientiously Scrupulous of bearing Arms was fined twenty
Pounds specie for non Attendance at Muster at the last Alarm & his
Land Executed therefore and to be sold on Wednesday next the
Eighth of this Ins^t August. Your distressed Petitioner under these
deplorable Circumstances to add to his Calamity is draughted for a
Soldier in the Quota of Troops to be raised by this State. In this
truely pitiable Condition your Oppressed petitioner has no Other
Refuge to fly to but to your Excellencys usual and well known
Clemency & Mercy in this his Case, your Petitioner is the more Em-
boldene to supplicate Your Excellency & Honour's Interposition in
his favor, as he has had the Honour to hear of Your Order to the
Sheriff of this County to Suspend the Sale of Thomas Burgins Land
who Enjoys four Times the Quantity of Land more than your poor
Petitioner & has only two Children & your Petitioner Seven small
helpless Babes, Your Excellencys alleviating and Mitigating his Dis-
tress by any Means will save a Family of Seven Small Children a
helpless Woman & your poor Petitioner from Ruin & Destruction
& shall ever entitle Your Excellency & Honours to the Constant
Prayers of Your Petitioner

August 4
Brown Book
No. 2
Letter 40

[W. Smallwood, Annapolis, to Gov. Lee.]

The irregular Proceedings of the County Lieu^ts must involve your
Board and myself in endless difficulties and render it impossible for
me to ascertain, when the counties have compleated their quotas, or
to do justice to those Substitutes who have been or may be defrauded
of their money by the classes or Persons by whom they are hired —
these reasons induce me to request you to require the Lieu^ts to make
returns of all Recruits, Draughts and Substitutes, raised or that may
be raised under the Acts of October & May Sessions, agreeable to the
one I have enclosed, & that they may keep a field Book recording
therein the names of all men Recruited drafted & substituted under
said Acts

August 5

[The Humble Petition of Stacey Arms of Charles County Widow.
To his Excellency Thomas Sim Lee Esq^r Governor and the
Honourable Council]

Humbly Sheweth That your Petitioner being left a Widow with
Three Children one Son and two daughters very small, that your
Petitioners son was drafted on the 27 day of July last that he is the
only support of myself and two daughters very small, that this pres-
ent year he is hired to one John Vardin I've three hundred pounds
of Pork and four Barrels of Corn all which is for the support of
myself and two daughters and should your Petitioner son be Obliged
to March your Petitioner and two daughters must be left in great
distress.