[Extract]

No 94

Dr Sir

We send you inclosed a Letter to the Committee of Observation for Baltimore County, if you approve, seal it and send it to them ー since Writing we have seen Mr [William] Lux, and have had some Conversation with him about the Committee's detaining the two Vessels belonging to Hugh Young, one intended to bring us Arms and Ammunition, the other Salt-Young tells us, that the first has been unloaded & is kept with Intention to sink, as a Hulk, and that the other is employed in bringing in Ship Timber for the Frigate now building; 2 no Consent of his, and contrary to the express Order of the Council of Safety of the 20th Instant

We wish to have this affair cleared up to our Satisfaction. W. Lux knows Nothing of the Matter ー We request you would converse with some of the Committee and let us know how every Thing has been conducted

[Annapolis] 27th March 1776.