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much clamour about the appointment of field officers that I did
not choose to accept of a Commission unless I was agreeable
to the people, for which purpose I have done myself the
pleasure of waiting upon several Companies to take their sen-
timents on the matter, and have met with their general appro-
bation, therefore if your Honours think proper to promote me
as a field officer please do me the favour to send a Commis-
sion by Captain Lucas, who will satisfy your honours that I am
the oldest person in Commission except Col^o Joshua Beall of
the 25^th Battalion, and that I have heretofore exerted myself in
the cause of Liberty as much as any one in the Province; and
you may rely upon an exertion of my utmost abilities in future
to support the cause, whatever my station may be. You will
please to defer issuing commissions for my Company till I
come up, which will be within a fortnight from this time, when
I shall return recommendations for officers agreeable to the
Company. Confiding in your doing me justice respecting this
application, I remain with the greatest regard
Gentlemen your honors most obed^t h^ble serv^t
Andrew Beall.

C. S. J.

Friday 1^st March 1776.
Council met. Present as yesterday.

Ordered That Major Gist furnish Captain Fulford with a
Quantity of Cloth sufficient to cloath his Company.
M^r Nicholas Ruxton Moore was appointed third Lieutenant
of Captain Fulford's Company of Matrosses. Commission
issued to him accordingly.
Ordered That Mess^rs Samuel Purviance Junior, William
Smith and David Stewart pay to Mess^rs William Lux and
Daniel Bowly twelve hundred and two Pounds eighteen Shil-
lings and nine pence, being the Ballance of their Account with
the province in Consequence of an Adventure by the Schooner
Seaflower.
Permit was granted to Mess^rs Samuel Purviance Jun^r Wil-
liam Smith and David Stewart and others concerned in the
Adventure p^r the Schooner Seaflower, to export the Produce
of this Province to the Amount of four hundred and eighty
nine Pounds and five pence agreeable to a Resolution of
Congress.
Doct^r George Budd was appointed Surgeon of the Ship
Defence, and Doct^r Nathan Dorsey jun^r Mate.
Adjourned till next Day 10 O'Clock.