122 Journal and Correspondence

C. B.

Thursday 4^th June 1778

Present as on yesterday
Information having been given to this Board that David
Tyler, Ezekiel Meekings and Andrew M^cCrady joined the
British Fleet when in Chesapeak Bay last year and have been
with the Enemy ever since till very lately that the said Andrew
M^cCrady acted as a Pilot on board the said Fleet, and that
the said three Persons have lately returned again to Dor-
chester County. Wherefore it is Ordered that the said three
Persons be arrested by the Sheriff of any County in which
they respectively may be or by any Militia Officer and that
they be carried before a Judge of the general Court or brought
before this Board that they may be dealt with according to
Law.
Commissions issued to Isaac Perkins appointed Lieut Col^o
William Frisby Major George Hanson Capt, Simon Wickes
Capt, Thomas Crow first Lieut, Samuel Beck second Lieut,
Philip Davis Capt, William Warrell first Lieut, Samuel Sinnett
second Lieut, William Sturges Ens. James Williamson Capt,
Morgan Hunt first Lieut of the thirteenth Battalion of Militia
in Kent County
Commission issued to Joseph Nicholson James M^cClean,
Samuel Davis Ezekiel Forman and Richard Lloyd appointed
Judge of the Court of Appeals for Kent County

C. C.

p. 170

[Council to R. Stephens.]

In Council Annapolis 4^th June 1778.
Sir.
We inclose you an Order for apprehending Tyler, Meeking
and M^cCrady. If they should have removed out of your
County, we would have you send the Order after them, they
ought by all Means to be taken up, and are sorry that any
Person under their Circumstances should be suffered to be at
Large an Hour after their coming back. Search ought to be
made too for the Goods you suspect have been brought in by
them. We did not expect that any other Continental Goods
were at Cambridge, than the Arms sent for by West's Boat,
Tents and two or three Casks of Purging Salts and, belong,
ing to Virginia, a few Blankets. You mention in your Letter
112 Blankets, in your Memorand^m brought by L^l Hanson 74
Blankets. We wish you had mentioned to whom the Goods
belong, that we might have given Orders accordingly, as it is,
we are obliged to unlade and store them here, 'til we can
discover who they belong to; if you know, write us.
Robertson Stephens Esq^r We are &^ca