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Saturday 2d March 1776.
Council met. Present as yesterday.
Commission issued to [Lilburn] Williams appointed third
Lieutenant of Capt Thomas Woolford's independent Com-
pany
Resolved That Major Gist be empowered to contract for
fifty Camp Kettles and as many Hats as may be necessary for
the Battalion not exceeding 7 1/2 each.
Mr Hugh Young agreed with the Council to load the
Schooner Peggy, with Country Produce, and in Return to
import Salt agreeable to a Resolution of Congress.
Doctor Charles Frederick Wiesenthal was appointed Sur-
geon to the Battalion.
Commission issued to George Walsh appointed Ensign of
Captain James Cox's Company of Militia in Baltimore County
in the Room of David McClellan who removed out of the
Province.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Mr Daniel Grant six Pounds fifteen Shillings for the use of his
Room and Doorkeeper.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Mr William Lux
One thousand Pounds Currency on Account of the Ship
Defence.
Adjourned to the City of Annapolis till Monday next.
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[Garrett to Jenifer.]
Harford County 2 March 1776.
Sir. Yours of 19 Ult. came to my hands, and in answer,
can advise that I have been sometime at work about the salt
petre. I got a parcel of earths thrown up and the boards for
erecting the sheds are cutting, and having a convenient copper
in my own house I have been above two weeks at work tho
with very little success having made but very little crude nitre,
the reason I attribute to want of Judgment in the process, as I
think from a view of the earths, used in York Town, which I
went on purpose to see, that what I have is equal, the Per-
sons in this county has greatly left of making tobacco but the
houses they used are mostly standing and from such in my
neighbourhood a large quantity of Materials can be procured,
the man I have engaged is an industrious person and a little
speculative tho very poor that dont dispair overcoming the
difficulty, before I got your letter, on our Muarying I wrote
to Dor Weisenthal by him, & sent him there for three or four
days, he is not yet returned, what he can gather then I dont
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