January 1-December 31, 1781 533

We do hereby become subscribers of the sums affixed to our names,
on the scheme for an emission, in pursuance of the act for the emis-
sion of bills of credit not exceeding two hundred thousand pounds,
on the security of double the value in lands, to defray the expences
of the present campaign.

October 23
Red Book
No. 30
Letter 45

House

Red Book

Subscribers Names

Real Estate in Lands

1 Lotts £

No. 30

Joseph Gilpin

all his Real Estate

250

Letter 127

Sam^l Thomas

Part Triple Union

200

[Printed
form signed

H. Hollingsworth

all His Real Estate

500

by subscrib-

David Smith

Part of Susquehannah manor

100

ers.]

Sam^l Gilpin

Part of a tract of Land call^d Coxes

Park

100

Samuel Maffith

p^t Vanbibber forrest

100

Stephen Hyland

his real Estate

100

Thos. Huggins

his real Estate

150

Da^d Ricketts

Real Estate

100

[Petition of George Fleming To His Excellency Thomas Sim
Lee Esq^r]

The humble petition of George Fleming sheweth that your peti-
tioner being left by his Uncle M^r Simon Vashon in possession of a
house jointly with a certain Mary Coghlan who by her repeated ill
behaviour has provoked your petitioner to strike her so that himself
& security have forfeited their recognizances amounting to the sum
£150 specie for which Sciere faciaS^ts have been issued & served,
your petitioner being an unexperienced young man not yet of age &
dependant on his Uncle for Support who has been absent upwards
of two years & is thereby rendered incapable of paying said sum
which will consequently fall on his Securitys & greatly distress them
unless your Excellency will be pleased to relieve your petitioner from
this distressing penalty and as in duty bound your petitioner for your
prosperity & happyness will always pray &c.
Wee the Subscribers do recommend the above petitioner to your
Excellencys Clemmency.

John Cradock; Thos. Sellers; Peter Shepherd.
Rob^t Lemmon; And. Buchanan;
John Moale; Isaac V. Bibber ;

October 24
Red Book
No. 26
Letter 113

[Nath. Greene, Head Quarters, high hills of Santee, to Gov. Lee.]

Inclosed I send you a Return of the troops belonging to your
State serving with this Army, and I am happy to hear of a consid-
erable force having arrived in Virginia under General Gist, & joined
General Washington in his operations against Lord Cornwallis.
Those reinforcements could they have reached us a little earlier
would have been of great importance; for the want of which I have
been in the greatest distress, however by patience and perseverance

October 24
Brown Book
No. 8
Letter 12
[Indorsed :
"referred to
the Comm,
on the
recruiting
service "]