290 CALENDAR OF THE GREENE CORRESPONDENCE. [April 6, 
ERSKINE, JOHN, to MajoR CLAIBORNE : 
1779.—November 8. Mr. Southeriand’s.—Enclosing last weekly 
report. Asking him to sign the blank appointments and send 
them up at once. Wants to know the charges against Van 
Court, whom Col. Claiborne has confined ; thinks he can assist 
in the evidence against him. VolMix, No: 45. 
To OLNEY, GEORGE: 
1779.—Lovember 15. New Cornwall.—Enclosing last weekly 
report; asks him to tell the General that after strict inquiry 
into the expenses of the express-riders, he finds they will all 
be willing to stay at $20.00 per day. Vol. xii, No. 9. 
FERRIS, OWEN, to Cot. JOHN MITCHELL: 
1779.—May 20. Germantown.—Sorry for the complaint lodged 
against him. Insists that not a horse he purchased that year 
but was in good order; but the last drove got mixed up with 
some horses from Lancaster, hence the mistake. 
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FINLEY, E. (Capt.), to Carr. GRAY: 
1778.—December 6.—Order to shoe various horses, and to puta 
hook on one of the cannon. Vol. xii, No. 94. 
FINNIE, WILLIAM, to CoL. HOLLINGSWORTH : 
1779.-—May 12. Williamsburgh.—Acquainting him with Capt. 
Barret’s return from Richmond with the lead, which is now 
lying on James river and might as well be in the Gulf of 
Florida. Sorry to inform him that the First Fort in Virginia 
has fallen into the hands of the enemy, and with it all the 
shipping in the harbor of Portsmouth and Norfolk and a 
large quantity of stores. Town of Portsmouth in their pos- 
session, Hampton will fall next, York and Williamsburgh in 
great danger. Enemy landed above the fort at two different 
places ; garrison, being weak, evacuated. Wishes information 
as to the lead. Vol. vii, No. 83: 
Fitcu, NATHANIEL, to CoL. JEREMIAH WADSWORTH : 
1779.—October 25. Hartford.—Begging him to intercede with 
Gen. Greene to get him discharged from the Continental 
service, where he has worked as a blacksmith ; has a family of 
six, who are sick and in want, and he is unable to support 
them on $1.50 per day. Vol. viii, No. 105. 
