Baltimore 21 March 1776.
[Extract]
Gentlemen.
By a letter I recd from Mr Bowly by this days post he tells me our delegates had ordered all the sail cloth to be left at Phila the other things were to come in the Packet oh Tuesday, I expect they mean to sell the sail cloth as the price is very high there, we sold ours at £ 9.10 pr Bolt, If the Gentn have not wrote you their reasons for doing it, I think you had better order it down, as perhaps you may not soon meet a further supply. Genl Lee got here last night and has been to view our Battery, he thinks it very well executed, and that it will answer the intention. He has taken Mr [Felix Lewis] Massenbaugh 2 with him to Virga & says he understands his business & that he cant do without him
1. Correspondence of Council of Safety, Md. Arch.
2. Massenbach was an engineer and second lieutenant of Captain John Fulford's company of matrosses.