Lee Letter: n724




<br /> Lee Letter: n724

Washington and Lee University

Sender: Daniel Carroll
Recipient: Thomas Sim Lee

Pha. Octr. 8th. 1782

Dear sr,

I return you many thanks for your favour of the 30th Ulto. & have by
this opportunity wrote to the Intendant; If he does not relieve me,
& the Council shoud Continue of the same opinion, I shall be under
very disagreable Circumstances. You may probably know the result from
the Maj. himself. I have wrote to Col. Stone on the Subject of yours of
the 3d, I beg leave to refer to it. Col. Stone’s merit is well known to
several members of Congress, & when the business of the 5 per Cent
is taken up will I have no doubt be attended to if he shou’d Continue
[in the] same mind after what I have wrote to
him.1

Please present my comps to Mrs Lee. I am Dr Sr. sincerely &
affectionately, yrs,

Danl Carroll

Notes:

Receiver’s copy, Lee, Horsey, and Carroll Papers deposit (1988), Maryland
Historical Society.

1 Lee had apparently recommended the appointment of Thomas Stone as Maryland
collector of the 5 per cent impost, which was also the subject of the
following brief October 7 letter from Superintendent Robert Morris to
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer. “I have already informed our mutual
Friend Thomas Stone Esqr. that the Appointment of the Collectors of 5
per Cent Impost remains in Congress and that I apprehend your
Delegates will be called upon to Nominate. It will always afford me
pleasure to render Service to Gentlemen of such worthy Character as
Colo. Stone.” Morris, Papers (Ferguson), 6:523.