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for Captain Young's Company — Tents, Gunslings, Cartouch
Boxes and Bayonet Belts you will pleased to get, if you have
not already done it for the three Companies viz': Posey's,
Lowe's, and Young's. Captⁿ Forrest we have ordered to
remain in S^t Mary's County to supply the place of Thomas's
Independent Company — he will be obliged to borrow arms
from the militia. We wish to forward you all in our power,
but cannot agree to spare the arms in the hands of the Har-
ford Comm" or in Dallam's possession; the Companies of the

Battalion we propose to keep are not half aimed — you must

depend on your former order to the Committee... We have
advanced the sum of £125 c^y each, to Capt^ns Posey & Lowe —
you are to account with Captⁿ Lowe for £200.. 0.. 0, which he
says you have already furnished him with; — we expect to
have the pleasure of seeing you in Annapolis before you go,
when you have sent off the three Companies; we are obliged
to transmit our Acc^ts to Congress, and therefore request you
to come prepared to settle your whole Acc^t.
12^th Aug^st 1776.

c. s. C.

[Council to Hopkins.]

To Gerard Hopkins Dep^y Commiss^y
Sir. We have heretofore given Col^o Ch^s Greenberry
Griffith an order for sundries for his Battalion, — but Captⁿ
Burgess's Company comeing this way & being forwarder than
the rest of the Battalion, we request you would deliver him
86 Gun slings, 86 Bayonet Belts, 15 Camp Kettles, go Car-
touch Boxes, 90 Brushes and priming wires, and deduct so
many of each from the former order.
12^th Aug^t 1776

No. 131.

[Cunningham to Council.]

Anapolis Agust 12^th 1776.
Gentlemen: When I was last before you, you was pleased
to allow me a few days to consider on what I had best do for
to get a living for myself. I think as this is the country in
which I expect to live & spend my days in I cannot do better
than enter into the service of this country, though it may
appear a little odd that I should be so ready to enter into the
service of the States of America after being so long with Lord
Dunmore, yet I'm in hopes that it will not appear so when I
tell you that I was long before I left the fleet looked upon as
what they call a Rebel. I have been by order of his Lord-
ship tryed for such and with great difficulty could get clear. I
had a Commission which I was prevailed upon to accept by
my friends which I give up in a very few days since which I

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