64 Letters to the Governor and Council

February 11
Red Book
No. 28
Letter 33

[Joseph Dashiell, Worcester County, to Gov. Lee.] (By Mr. Truett]

I embrace this opertunity by M^r Truett, to Inform your Excel-
lency that their is sundry People in this County that seem Determind
to give all the opposition they Can, to the Collection of the Taxes,
a Certain Benj^a Shockley an old offender, Tryed all in his power to
kill the sheriff, the other Day, in the Execution of his Office, the
Sheriff has resigned his Commission, I realy beleave for fear of
Losing his Life, by sum of those Enimyes, to our Country & its
Gov^mt I would submit it to your Excellency & Council, wheather sum
few Examples of such Daring Vilions as those, who in the face of
your officers: will Drink success to the King of Great Britton, and
Bost that in a few weeks they expect to have ample Satisfaction,
for all that has bin Taken from them, and that they make no doubt,
that they shall Receive Twenty for one. If such Insults as these go
with impunity we need not expect to do much heare in the recruiting
Business or anything else that is Disagreeable to our enemy
I this morning Rec^d a letter from M^r Josiah Polk of Somerset
County (who has Just Returned from Lewes Town Court) Inform-
ing me that he had Business of Grate Importance to Communicate
If I Could ride to his house, it was of such a nature that he did not
Chose to Commit it to paper. I have rote him, if it is of a nature that
Our Executive ought to be apprised of to send me an express to night
that I may forward it to you
On my way home, I fell in Company with a gentlemen from Cecil
County who Inform'd me that a Capt Beach who saled for M^r John
Stump, had Inform'd a M^r John Thomson of Harford County that
he the said Beach was Bound to S^t K'ts and that if he Thomson
would Lend him sum hard money he should have half the profits,
that M^r Thomson Did Lend Capt Beach a sum of hard money, that
after Beach had got the money, he Informed M^r Tho^s that he had
Deceaved him, for that he was going to New York and that if he
was uneasey he would Return him his money, the said Beach also
Informed M^r Thomson, that he had Caried one load of flower, on
Bord the British fleet, in this Bay & had then got a permit, to go to
New York: and that John Stump that was formerly Col^o Hollings-
worth Clk, was Super Cargo of the said Schooner, Belonging to
Stump & Co. If you should be at a loss to find out this matter, I
Believe if you ware to Call on M^r John Thomson & Jeremiah Backor,
that they would be able to give you much more Intelligence. M^r J.
Backor lives near Suskanah in Cecil County I am informed that
sum of the Insurgents that Broke Lewes Town Goal and sum others
that was Concearnd in the late Insurection in that County were
Skulking in this County and are harbor'd by Sum of Our Disafected,
should be glad of Directions what to do with them & those that har-
bor them if we Can apprehend them. I most sincerely wish that the
Law that past to In force the payment of the Taxes in Somerset