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impossible for any vessel to pass our Ravenous Enemies,
however if you think the Schooner Ninety has any Chance you

will please give the Committee orders to allow me to load her
as her Cargo is all ready. If you think otherwise I shall be
glad to know what I am to do with the Cargo. I shall be
much obliged for a few lines on this subject by the first oppor.
tunity. I am gent" y most obedt.
Hble Serv^t Hugh Young.

[Queen Anne's Committee to Council.]

Queen Anns County. By the Committee of observation
April 22^d 1776. Captⁿ George Noble Sweat having under an
especial order of this Committee returned a list of a Company
of Militia in Wye, Whereby it appears that the said George
Noble Sweat, is chosen Captain Nehemiah Noble first Lieu-
tenant, James Bartlet second Lieutenant & Thomas Duffer
Ensign of the said Company, and that there are in the said
Company four serjeants, four corporals & fifty two privates.
The above officers are recommended to the Council of Safety
for Commissions.
Signed p order Committee. Sol^o Wright chairman

C. S. C.

Tuesday 23^d April 1776.
Council met. Present as yesterday.

Col. John Veazey returns to the Council £500 in Bills of
Credit of this Province which we sent him by Cap^t Robert
Craig on the 14^th Day of February last, for the Purpose of
purchasing Gunpowder.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
Captain John Allen Thomas twenty eight Pounds fourteen
Shillings and five Pence being the Ballance of his general
Account to the third of April.
Ordered That the said Treasurer pay to Cap^t Thomas three
hundred and ninety four Pounds one Shilling and eight Pence
on Account of his Company.
Ordered That M^r Athanasius Ford of S^t Mary's County pay
to Cap^t John Allen Thomas twenty seven Pounds seven Shil-
lings and six Pence for so much Money paid him over and
above the just Amount of his Account on the 12th Instant.
Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Cap^t
Thomas 1/2 a Ream of Cartridge paper and 10 pieces of
Check.
Adjourned till 3 O'Clock & met accordingly.

C. S. J.