Sir I am ordered by the Council of Safety to acknowledge the Rect of your Letter of the 10th Inst & to acquaint you that they have Issued the proper quantity of Gun Powder for the Colleton County Regiment & put it under the direction of Collo [Joseph] Glover to whom the Captains of the Militia & Volunteer Companies on Edisto Island must apply for their proportion.
Whenever you send a Boat, provided it shall be before the meeting of the Congress, the Council of Safety will order four four-pound Cannon together with a proper quantity of Corn Powder to be delivered for the service you point out, but they are informed that there are not any 4t Shot in Charles Town-perhaps you may think it best to postpone this business to the meeting of Congress2 when other pieces of Cannon for which suitable shot may be found, may then be ordered. ー I am Sir [&c.]
Charles Town 13 Octobr 1775.
1. South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, II, 266.
2. Delegates to the Second Provincial Congress of South Carolina had been elected in August; the Congress was to convene November 1, 1775.
