In Council [Annapolis] 18th. May 1778.
Sir.
We send down a Quantity of Flour by the Gallies,1 out of which you are to finish the Stowage of the Molly after putting in the Tobacco now on Board the Baltimore Galley. We thought it better to make up the Deficiency with Flour, which will give you a mixed Cargoe, than to purchase the Tobacco below. Inclosed you have a Letter for Mr. Harrison.2 Do not omit to send us by the Gallies, what belongs to the Molly and will not be necessary in her, with an Inventory— We are &ca
LB, MdAA, Governor and Council (Letter Books) 1777-1779, S1075-6, 4007, p. 157, no. 214. Addressed at bottom: “Capt. Danl. Deshon.”
1. Probably, the Maryland Navy galleys Baltimore and Conqueror.
2. See Council to Richard Harrison, this date, below.
