430 Letters to the Governor and Council

August 20
Red Book
No. 28
Letter 15

him the privilege to follow his lawful business within the limits of
our State, to expedite & forward to us an order for his imediate
discharge from prison. In doing which Your Excellency and Honours
will lay us under the greatest additional Obligations, and at the same
time thereby kindly relief the distressed heart of an anxious afflicted
and Sorrowful Father who begs the honour to be with the greatest
Respect and Esteem Your Excellency's and The Hon^ble Council's
Most obedient & most humble Serv^t

August 20

[Erasmus Gantt, Prince Georges County, to Gov. Lee.]

I wrote you some time past by D^r Denwood respecting my appoint-
ment in the State Troop, requesting your Excell^y would grant your
Interest, in procuring me an appointment in the Regiment of Horse
to be raised by the State; I should be sensible of an Impropriety in
the request, was there any prospect of your Excell^ys being able to
raise Captⁿ Lingan a Troop Shortly, or admitting it was raised, of
his being able to take Command, (from a late Indisposition, which
has rendered the Advantages of the warm Springs to him, Indis-
pensable) during the space of two or three months. Should your
Excell^y procure me a Commission in the Reg^t of Horse, at any
future day when you may find the raising Captⁿ Lingan a Troop
expedient. I will act in either as your Exc^y may think most proper, at
present I am wholly unimployed

August 20

[Charles G. Griffith to Gov. Lee]

Sundry Gentlemen in this County sensible of the Great Utillaty
of a troop of horse upon any emergency or Sudden Depredations of
the enemy, have Enroled themselves under articles Subject to the
Act of Assembly Passed at June Session 1780
Haveing the honour of the Command of this troop Confered on
me; At their Request solicit your Excellency and honours to Fur-
nish them with Swords Pistols and holsters at the Publick Expense
and I will be answerable For their Return Unless taken by the
Enemy.
The Troop will be in Readiness if Furnished Agreeable to the
Above Request in three Weeks

August 20

[Tho. Price, Frederick Town, to the Governor and Council.]

I have been directed by the Comm^y General of the Western Shore,
to forward with all Expedition the Flour collected at the several Mills
in this County to Balt^o and George Towns, & in Consequence have
endeavoured to procure any engage the necessary Waggons, but find
it impossible as nothing more can be done without Money.
I am already considerably behind Hand for Flour Casks & Wag-
gon Hire, also for Provisions of the Meat Kind having for some