464 Letters to the Governor and Council

[August]

for the use of the State, I know that he has no other that is suitable
for himself or family to ride
Zach^a Forrest John Smith 1^st John Smith Ju^r
I hereby certify that is to my knowledge many in this County that

can much better spare a Horac than Michael Spalding

Jn^o Reeder

[August]

[James Wells Col^o to His Excellency Thomas Sim Lee Esq^r]

May it Please Your Excellency I have to Inform and Lay the
Complaint of George Payne a Young man who served as A Substi-
tute out of my Battalion Agreeable to an Act of Assembly pased at
Anapolis at March Session 1778 the 12 Sextion which Intitles him
to a Suit of Cloathes two shirts two p^r Shoes & Stockings, a hat & a
Blankett, Which Articles or the Cloath and Linnen s^d George Payne
prays he may Receive Instead of the Money Seemingly Stipulated By
his Colo. and M^r Zepheniah Turner Audetor General

[August]

[N[athaniel] R[amsey] to Governor Lee]

I take the liberty of inclosing a letter to Col^o Williams which
I beg you to forward. I have expected every hour to have received
Instructions respecting the sale of whetstonepoint, I am more and
more confirmed in the opinion the necessity of altering: the terms, and
every hour it is delayed has a bad effect, I am convinced that agree-
able to the present terms, I shall not be able to sell perhaps one lot, for
unless I can obtain two thirds the value, I must stop the sale.

[August]
Brown Book
No. 2
Letter 11

[W. Smallwood to the Governor and Council.]

The Bearer Thomas Richardson, Michael Clancy, Joseph Blaze,
William Cox, William George and John Courts, six exchanged Pris-
oners from Charles Town, claim the benefit of the advance made to
others in a similar situation — for which purpose they wait on the
Governor & Council for an Order that the Money may be advanced
to M^r Denny.

[August]

[Petition of Mary Wright to Governor Lee]

To his Excellency Thomas Sim Lee Esq^r Governor In and Over the
State of Maryland and the Honnourable The Council.
The Petition of Mary Wright of Charles County Humbly Shew-
eth. That your Petitioner being a Widdo who has five Children to
support being very poor, and that her son Samuel Wright who is all
her dependance for Assistance was on the 27^th of July last Drafted
into the Continental Army Also that he the said Samuel haveing been
for some time past in a bad State of health therefore your petition^r
Hopes your Honnou^r will take her Destresed Condition into Your