[Extract] Gentlemen,
...Mr J[es]se Hollingsworth recd your favr p Capt Nicholson & thanks you for the d[ra]ft therein inclosed, which he will apply to the purposes you direct and render you an acct of the Charges of unloading the Brigs and removing the soldiery as soon as the amount can be ascertained.2
He desires me to assure you, that he will give all the assistance he can to Geo Wells in procuring the timber for the Gondolas & will always be glad of such Commissions from you as it may be in his power to execute. I am Gentlemen, for Mr. J. Hollingsworth [&c.]
Caleb C. Gough.
Baltimore July 13th 1776.
1. Correspondence of Council of Safety, Md. Arch.
2. The brigs Fortune and Rogers.