470 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. J.

Commissions issued to Richard Frisby appointed 1 Lieu-
tenant, and James Frisby 2^d Lieutenant of Capt. William
Frisby's Company of Militia in Kent County.
Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay to
M^r James West Eighteen pounds eighteen Shillings for 9 1/2
Ream of Paper.
Copy of Letter N^o 17 was sent to the Deputies of this
Province in Congress.
Adjourned till next Day 10 O'Clock.

C. S. C.

No. 17.

[Council to Maryland Deputies.]
To the Deputies for Maryland in Congress.

Gentⁿ We received M^r Stone's Letter of the 4^th instant and
are obliged for the intelligence therein contained. We have
heertofore wrote you by M^r Steuard, which doubt not you have
received — the Governor is not yet gone; we expect he will
leave the Province in a few days, what interruption the Vir-
ginians will or can give him in his passage down the Bay, time
will discover. We send you enclosed a copy of their resolves,
which came by express this day directed to C. Carroll Esq^r
Chairman of the Convention, and appear to have been fabri-
cated sometime after our Convention had broke up. You will
see clearly the intention is to stir up the people against the
powers now in being, Deputies in Congress, Convention, and
Council of Safety, for which they deserve to be properly
rewarded. — how far such proceedings tend to promote union
and harmony amongst the colonies, you will judge as well or
better than we can. We intend returning them a short
answer, and leave to the Convention when they meet again to
give them the payment they deserve.
Should the Congress think proper to request us to march
our militia in the manner T. S. hath intimated, we must be
under the disagreeable necessity of calling the Convention, tis
not with us to say they shall march out of the Province; and
we doubt the militia themselves will be backwards in so doing
'till all danger of invasion here be at an end for the season —
3400 militia would take all the arms we have that are service-
able, and then what condition would our own province be in ?
we should become an easy prey to the Men of War and tenders
that will swarm in the bay during the summer, and perhaps
the ministerial Troops may be tempted by our weakness to do
what they would not otherwise have attempted — this we say
upon supposition that we must furnish them with arms &c.
We shall hear more fully however hereafter.
The intelligence with regard to 7000 men rising and