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Ordered, That Copies of the foregoing Recommendation
be transmitted to the several Offices therein mentioned.
The following notice was ordered to be printed in the
Annapolis Gazette, viz.

By the Council of Safety of Maryland October 21^st 1775.
The Committees of Observation are requested to compleat
their Returns of the Minute and Militia Officers, and the
Companies of Militia formed in Battalions agreeable to the
Resolves of the late Convention as soon as may be, that the
proper Commissions may issue.

Resolved, That there be a Meeting of the Convention at the
City of Annapolis on the 4^th Day of December next and that
the Clerk of this Council inclose a Copy of this Resolve to the
Delegates of each County within this Province.
Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Eastern Shore pay
John Garratt for his Trouble in attending this Meeting, and
for providing Wood & Candles, the Sum of forty Shillings
common money.
Signed by Order Eleazer McComb Clk.

C. S. J.

[Washington to Hancock.]

N^o 10. Camp at Cambridge October 24. 1775
Sir. My conjecture of the destination of the late squadron
from Boston in my last has been unhappily verified by an out-
rage exceeding in barbarity and cruelty every hostile act prac-
ticed among civilized nations. I have enclosed the account
given by M^r Jones a gentleman of the town of Falmouth of the
destruction of that increasing & flourishing village. He is a
very great sufferer and informs me that the time allowed for
the removal of effects was so small that valuable property of
all kinds and to a great amount has been destroyed. The
orders shewn by the Captain for this horrid proceedure by
which it appears that the same desolation is meditated upon
all the towns on the coast made it my duty to communicate it
as quickly and extensively as possible. As Portsmouth was
the next place to which he proposed to go General Sullivan
was permitted to go up and give them his assistance and
advice to ward off the blow. I flatter myself the like event
will not happen there as they have a fortification of some
strength & a vessel has arrived at a place called Sheepscot
with 1500^lb of Powder. The gentlemen of the congress have
nearly finished their Business but as they write by this oppor-
tunity, I must beg leave to refer you to their letter for what

C. S. C.