Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Paisley, Colonel John July 14, 1776
Revwar - Letters 
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From The Colonial Records Of North Carolina, Vol. X, Page 668, From Manuscript Records In Office Of The Secretary Of State:
Letter from Ralph Gorrell to Council of Safety. 
“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of Honorable Council:
	“As you will receive by the hands of the bearer a letter to you 
directed from Brigadier Rutherford, (as I suppose) praying that your Honors 
would order some salt for the District of Salisbury and also more powder, for 
the use of the militia now ordered out against them Indians. As Colonel John 
Peasley [Paisley] has appointed me commissary for the Guilford Battalion with 
the approbation of the brigadier for said district, I should be glad that your 
Honors in your great prudence would be pleased to order it that each county in 
said District might know the quantity, and I should be glad that you would send 
by  the bearer, if you think proper, an order to me to receive at Cross Creek 
what quantity you may judge necessary for Guilford, so that I might be the more 
expeditious in getting the provisions ready for the men.”

“As there is a number of the militia drafted that wants guns in this county, 
should your Honors resolve that what Tory guns is in this county fit for 
service, that the militia should have them on this expedition, it would perhaps 
expedite their dispatch. I should be glad if your Honors would inform me if you 
order any of the salt for the militia of Guilford whether or not the money must 
be remitted to the merchant there or he charge the public.”

“Your Honors compliance with this will much oblige, Gentlemen, Your very humble 
servant. Ralph Gorrell.”
Guilford, July the 14th, 1776


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