398 Letters to the Governor and Council

August 6
Red Book
No. 27
Letter 128

prevented from getting the other two by the Indisposition of my
Family with the flux, this has also prevented my collecting the Beef
Cattle required, and my being under the disorder prevents my now
going after them However have a deputy out and expect to have a
Quantity Collected this week ready to send up if the weather will
permit — at present tis to violently Hot twill be Impossible to drive
them, in the day especially, but you may be assured I will have them
up as soon as possible

August 6
Red Book
No. 27
Letter 129

[George Stricker, Frederick Town, to Gov. Lee.]

I Received yours of the 4^th at 2 o'Clock this afternoon Requesting
me to forward Immediately all the Waggons and Teams Collected
by me to Anapolis without Delay you are not unacquainted with the
Delivery of all the Draft Horses and Giers which I had in my Pos-
session Agreeable to your Letter Bearing Date the 24^th of July and
Complyed with on the 2^d of August for which I have John Bullings
the Quarter Masters Receipt. I have Only the Troop Horses Re-
maining in my hands to the Number of fourteen which are at Your
Service when Called on
NB. I could have wished to have Been Impowered to seize a Num-
ber of waggons sufficient for your Releif which I would have got
without Delay

August 7
Brown Book
No. 3
Letter 73

[M. Gist, Baltimore, to His Excellency Governor Lee.]

I had the honor, some months ago to lay before you, my In-
structions from Major General Greene vesting me with Command
in this State. The execution of the several duties required in those
Instructions naturally subjected me to unavoidable expences, and was
necessarily drawn from my private stores which is now, and has
been for some time reduced to a few shillings.
To add to the mortification of the humiliating situation, I find
myself largely indebted for the support of my Table, and am daily
Dun'd by a Train of Butchers, Barbers, Taylors, Shoemakers and
Merchants, who possitively refuse to receive (State Certificates)
the only money your Military can command.
I have therefore taken the liberty of laying the encloS^td account
of extra Expenditures before Your Excellency & Council and to
request an order on the Treasurer for the amount in specie, or an
equivalent sum in Continental State Money, to be advanced on Ac-
count of the United States, and to be settled and accounted for by
me, with the Auditors of the Southern Army, or with General
Greene who has engag'd to reimburse me.
The application of an Officers private money, to public uses, is
attended with singular disadvantages, as every day lessens the pros-
pect of rewards for his services, diminishes the honor of his station,