232 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

Cap^t Thomas Watkins Company a p Muster Rool,

77

Now present 12 officers 70 privates Guns 60.

Cap^t William Bragdens Comp^y p muster rool

80

Now present 12 officers, 49 privates Guns 41

Cap^t Edward Tillards Comp^y p muster rool

73

Now present 12 officers 38 privates Guns 36.

Cap^t Abraham Simmons Comp^y p muster rool

65

Now present 9 officers 39 privates Guns 30

Cap^t John Deale's Comp^y p muster rool

65

Now present 1 1 officers 34 privates Guns 28.

Cap^t Richard Chews Comp⁷ p muster rool

54

Now present 1 2 officers 26 privates Guns 30.

Cap^t Richard Weems Comp^y p muster rool

45

Now present 8 officers, 28 privates, Guns 21

Field officers ..... 4

Commission & non Com" officers . 76

privates present ....... 284

Muskets ..... .... 246

Signed p^r order
March 9^th 1776. Sam^l Harrison elk.

[Purviance (?) to Griffith.]

M^r Benj" Griffith.
Sir.
I fancy from what I hear that you mistook the directions I
gave you. They were only that you should get the vessels
ready for sinking and not to sink them immediately. I would
not have them sink till you are ordered to do so by Capt.
Nicholson.
And are &^c
March 9'" 1776

e. s. j.

Sunday 10^th March 1776
Council met. Present as yesterday.

A Letter from Captain Squire of the Otter Sloop of War,
to his Excellency the Governor together with his Excellency's
Answer thereto, were communicated to the Council, upon
which a Copy of Letter N^o 5 1 was sent to his Excellency by
the Council.
An Express was sent to Col^o Thomas Dorsey directing him
to discharge the Battalion of Militia under his Command.
Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
the Committee of Observation for Baltimore County one thou-
sand Pounds Currency on Account of the Fortifications erect-
ing there.