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[December]
[Indorsed,
"The per-
missions
granted "]
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[The Petition of Harry Dorsey Gough of Baltimore County, To
his Excellency The Governor and the Honorable Council of
Maryland.]
Your Petitioner is seized and possessed of a considerable real
and personal Estate of not less Value than eight thousand pounds
Sterling, in the Kingdom of Great Britain that since the Commence-
ment of the present War he hath had no Information or Intercourse
with his Agents and Attorneys residing in Great Britain, in whose
Case, were left the Receipt of his personal Estate and Collection of
his Rents, but they were not vested with any Powers for the Dis-
posal of his real Estate. That your Petitioner altho he has fre-
quently wrote and pressed his Agents for an Account and State of
his Affairs, hath not been able to get any Information from them,
on the Subject, whereby he is precluded from Laying in his Claim
on their property in Maryland, and being reimbursed for his personal
Property in their Hands, and as to his real Estate, which constitutes
the greatest Part of his Property in Great Britain he is destitute of
any remedy for the Recovery of the same, unless your Excellency,
and Honors should grant Permission that your Petitioner might
send an Agent vested with proper Powers for that Purpose to sell
and dispose of his real Property and transmit the Value thereof to
America: and in order that a Power of Attorney should be authen-
tically executed, your Petitioner is advised it will be necessary for
him as well as the Person appointed to transact this Business should
be permitted to go to New York to have the same executed and
ratified by such Authority and in such manner as would be sufficient
according to the Laws of Great Britain.
Your Petitioner would therefore hope, that as he is attached as
well by Principle as Habit to America and would wish to have all his
Property in it, that no objection will be made to the present Appli-
cation for Leave for himself and Agent to go to New York and
also for his Agent to go to Great Britain to collect his Estate and
remit it to America and on the contrary, if your Petitioner should
be denied this Permission, he will run the risque of Loosing his
whole Estate in that County.
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[1781]
Red Book
No. 30
Letter 102
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[List of Subscribers for the support of the barge Experiment]
Whereas the Enemy have fitted out a Number of small Vessels
to ravage & plunder our Farms & Plantations which lie on the Water
& have lately plundered many of our Countrymen and burnt &
destroyed their Houses threatening the like Destruction wherever
they shall be able to effect it with Security — And whereas from the
present exhausted State of the public Treasury Government cannot
immediately give that Protection to every Individual which is become
necessary from the cruel & Savage Mode in which the War is now
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