In Council Annapolis 25th. May 1778.
Sir.
We send you by your Brother1 the four thousand Dollars as you desire. We have great Difficulties in procuring Craft for the Transportation of Provisions, the first we can command on that Service, we shall send round to Potowmack,2 with Orders to take what you have on that River: What lies convenient to Patuxent, had best be sent to convenient Landings there but, if you have an Opportunity, we wish you in the mean Time to hire a Vessel and send forward the Provisions, inclusive of the Pork from Potowmack, addressed to Colo. Henry Hollingsworth at the Head of Elk.3 If we should send a Vessel round at the same Time, there would be no great Disappointment, as she may carry Fish or other Provisions from above or below you.— We are &ca.
LB, MdAA, Governor and Council Letterbook, 4007, S1075-6, p. 167, no. 236. Addressed at the foot: “Mr.Thomas Clagett/Piscataway.”
1.William Clagett who, like Thomas Clagett, was a purchasing agent for the state.
2. See Gov. Thomas Johnson, Jr., to Capt. George Ross, 27 May, below.
3. Hollingsworth was Continental deputy quartermaster general in Maryland.
