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THOMAS JOHNSON, JUN˙, TO DANIEL OF ST˙ THOMAS JENIFER.
Fredericktown, February 2, 1776.
DEAR SIR: I yesterday received yours, advising me of your meeting in Baltimore the 29th past. My family' s being several of them indisposed, the badness of the weather, and the probability of your breaking up but a little after the time I could get to Baltimore, has prevented my setting out. Mr˙ Stand' s inability to go to Philadelphia will shorten my stay here.
I am told that Clapham, of Virginia, agreed yesterday with our gunsmiths for a number of rifles, and that the Virginians are purchasing us all they can. I fear, unless what
Mr˙ Hughes has sanguine expectations of complying with his contract for cannon.
I am, dear sir, your very affectionate friend,
THOMAS JOHNSON, JUN.
To the Honourable Daniel of St˙ Thomas Jenifer, Esq.
Thomas Johnson, Jun. To Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
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useful guns that can be bought are purchased immediately for our troops, we shall have soldiers without arms. The one hundred pounds sent me by Mr˙ Ford, will buy only twenty rifles.