of His accounts as Sub Lieut. but He has Evaded rendering me any. Colonel Campbell is not able to settle as he has held two Courts of Appeal and is not able to collect the Fines, nor the Commissioners have not been able to make returns of the Estates of Delinquents.

Colonel James Perry Informs me He has settled His Accompts when last in Philadelphia, and Colo Hays's I Enclose with my own. The Vouchers for Hire of Express as charged in my account is Colonel Broadhead's Letters which I left in the Auditor's Office and if wanted may be had of the Clerk.

The four Month Company which your Excellency ordered me to Raise I had Compleated in three weeks after Receiving my Instructions, and Captain Stokeley's Company is already above thirty men strong all very good Men. We have very distressing times Here this summer. The Enemy are almost constantly in our County Killing and Captivating the Inhabitants. I see no way we can have of defending ourselves other than by offensive operations. General Clarke has Requested our assistance to Enable him to carry an Expedition into the Indian Country. And at Colonel Hays's request the Principle People of this County held a meeting when after Consultation came to a conclusion which I Enclose to your Excellency and would be Happy in having your approbation. I Flatter myself that with the Troops now raised together with what Volunteers and Drafts could be had we should have a considerable Force after our Harvest is secured.

The General's objects are the Shawneys, Delawares & Wiandotts Countrys in Order to bring them to a General Engagement and if Successful He makes no doubt of Reducing these three Nations. Please to oblige me with your Excellency's Instructions by this Express.

I have the Honour to be,

Your Excellency's most obedient
And very Humble Servant.

A LOCHRY, L. W. C.

N. B. If any Ballance appears due to me after deducting £2471 15s. Continental Currency which I fell behind in settlement with the Auditors, please send it by the Bearer, &c. .

Directed,

Ad L.

Public Service.

His Excellency, Joseph Road, Esquire, President Supreme Executive Council, Philadelphia.

Express.

Sir,

SPEAKER OF ASSEMBLY TO PRES. REED, 1781.

Philad", July 4th, 1781.

I am very sorry that your Excellency & Council have not yet received the Money necessary to answer Calls of the most important & indispensable kind, & the more so as Mr Rittenhouse has not obtained a greater sum than £686. ;* but at the same Time I must beg leave to inform your Excellency that as an Individual I have done every thing in my Power to promote the good Intentions of the House. Whatever the opinion of the House may have been I am humbly of Opinion that the main Part of the Business was put into the Hands of the State Treasurer, altho' the House in general agreed that they would assist the Treasurer in procuring the Loan, & appointed the City Members together with Mr Gray, Mr Hill, Mr Hayes, Mr Wynkoop, Mr Bird, Mr Mifflin, Mr Slough Mr Duncan & Mr McClean a special Comittee for that Purpose. This being done some Days before the House broke up, it was impossible for me to attend personally to the Business, but I was informed by some members of the Comittee before the House adjourned that the Treasurer had requested some Gentlemen in the different wards of the City to go round with the Subscription Paper & that there was already about £2000 subscribed. How far that may be the Case, & what Sums may probably be obtained I am not able to judge but if I stand rightly informed the Gentlemen who have subscribed are ready to pay their respective sums whenever called upon. The Treasurer who by the Directions of the House is at the Head of the Business, & perhaps the other City Members, who have had more Time & opportunity to attend to it than myself will no Doubt be able to give your Excellency every necessary information on that Head. The State

of my Health & other Circumstances oblige me to leave the City for some Time, but I make no Doubt the City Members & the other Gent appointed for that Purpose will use every Exertion, to promote the Subscriptions & obtain the Sums necessary.

Directed,

I have the Honour to be Sir,

Your Excellency's

most obedient & most humble servt. FRED'K A. MUHLENBERG.

His Excellency, Joseph Reed, Esq., President of the State of Pensilvania.

Indorsed,

July 4th, 1781. From Honble F* A. Muhlenberg, Esq., Speaker of the Gen Assembly.

* See page 18.

Willing to go to Sea.

JOHN REYNOLDS, Gaoler.

The above is a true Extract from the Docket of the Gaol aforesaid to the 3d of July, 1781. Pardoned-See Col. Rec., Vol. XII., p. 778-on condition of going to sea in the frigate Trumbull,

LT. COL. WM. COATS TO PRES. REED, 1781.

To the Hon'ble, the Supreme Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania.

Gentlemen,

Agreeable to the Resolve of Council of 15th June last, the Lieutenant of the County of Philadelphia begs leave to report that in Consequence of the orders contained in said Resolve, the Gentlemen Composing the Troop of Light Dragoons, belonging to said County, was duly Noticed to hold themselves in readiness to March at a short Notice, and Agreeable to Notice given the Troop, Assembled together at Flower Town, in said County, on Monday, the 25th of June, when the Lieutenant had the Satisfaction to find the Troop in General well mounted and Equipt.

I have the Honor to remain the Councils

Most Obed Humble servt.,

Philada., July 5, 1781.

W COATS, Lieut. C. P.

Sir,

PRES. REED TO ROBERT MORRIS, S. OF F. &c., 1781.

We duly received your Favour of the 4th Inst., & are happy to find your Prospects of Supplies so encouraging. Since that time we have received a Letter from the Q Master Gen' on the Subject of transportation of Provisions, which we apprehend will naturally fall within your System. But at the same time we find ourselves much embarassed to answer the several Letters & Requisitions now before us. Upon an attentive Perusal of the Resolves of the House, & your Letter following them, it appears to us that the Council were immediately exonerated from the Duty before imposed on them, of furnishing the Supplies. This was indeed the natural Consequences of putting all the Money in the Treasury under one Disposition. We are fully sensible that an instant Transfer of the Business was impracticable, but it is equally so for us to continue it without even Paper Money. We have, therefore, directed Col. Morgan to make up as soon as possible, a complete return of the Supplies furnished under the Requisition of Nov. 4, & all other Documents by which you may be enabled to determine the present State of the Business. We have also desired him to write to the several Commissioners in the Counties to render returns to the 20 Inst., by which Time we trust their further Services may be dispenced with. We cannot doubt this arrangement will be agreeable to you, as it will prevent improper

Interferences, & will relieve us from our present awkward Situation, in which we are responsible for the Requisition, without either Means or proper Authority to comply with it. We have taken every Measure in our Power to forward the Collection of Taxes, being fully sensible, with you, of its Importance & Necessity.

I am Sir,

With much Consideration & Esteem,

Your Obed., H'ble Servt.,

Robt. Morris, Esq., Superintend' of Finances of the United States. Indorsed, July 6, '81.

CIRCULAR-ROBERT MORRIS, S. I. OF FINANCE, 1781.

Sir,

(Circular Letter.)

Philadelphia, July 6th, 1781.

I do myself the honor of enclosing Copy of an Act of Congress, 28th June, 1781, from which your Excellency will perceive that I am directed to press a Compliance with the several requisitions of Congress upon your State. Immediaiely upon the receipt of this Resolution I wrote to the Treasury Board, The Comms General and Quarter Master General for Returns, by which to determine the several Balances Due. Whenever I shall have received them I will do myself the honour of addressing your Excellency again on the subject, and am to pray that in the Interim measures may be taken within your State to comply with these several requisitions as far as they may hitherto have been uncomplied with. The object of my present Letter is to give you early notice of that Resolution, and further to inform you that as the Balance of these Requisitions is the only Fund from which the Expenditures of the Campaign are to be draw, I must Urge the most Speedy and punctual compliance on the part of the several States. Your Excellency's Good Sense will render it unnecessary for me to dwell on this Subject, and your regard for the Publick Interest will, I am Confident, interest you most deeply in the facilitating a Compliance with this essential demand.

With the greatest Respect,

I have the Honour to be,

Your Excellency's Most Obt H. Servt.,
ROB MORRIS, S. I. of Finance.*

His Excellency, the President of the Supren e F. Cuncil, of Pensylvania.

* See Col. Rec., Vol. XII., p. 784.