Baltimore Sept 28th 1776.
Gentlemen.
I received yours desiring my attendance to adjust the Defence's accounts. I was under the necessity immediately upon my return here of sending the Clerk and. Purser down to the Eastern Shore after men of the Frigate2 and expect their return in five or six days, when I certainly will attend with them for that purpose, let my business with the Frigate be ever so pressing. I am Gentn [&c.]
James Nicholson
1. Correspondence of Council of Safety, Md. Arch.
2. The Continental frigate Virginia.
