No 31.
Sir Inclosed you have an order for one hundred Barrels of Flour now in Possession of Messrs Lux and Bowley, which we have already paid them for, and was to have gone by the Pilot Boat Chatam2 ー you will be pleased to fill up the vessell with some of the superfine flour, most likely to keep and an swer the market, and where flour cannot be stowed away, then kegs of bread ー and if there be not flour sufficient, that is good and likely to keep, then put on board bread to make up the cargoe ー no time is to be lost, that this vessel may be g[o]t away with all imaginable speed ー3 We are [&c.]
[Annapolis] 20th June 1776
1. Council of Safety Letter Book, No. 1, Md. Arch.
2. Ibid., order dated June 20, No. 32.
3. The Council enclosed an additional note to Dugan: "...we have some expectation of loading another vessel of about 650 Barrels and should be glad to know when the bread will be baked, we shall probably want it next week, as also all the flour the Three Sisters can take." Ibid., No. 33.
