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[Council to George and Alexander.]
To Captains George and Alexander
Gentlemen
You are to prepare as expeditiously as possible to march to
the Northward. We have wrote Colonel Hollingsworth
about Tents for your Company, you will apply to him & afford
him all the assistance in your power in procuring these.
Colonel Richardson is appointed Colonel to your Battalion
and will be with you in a few Days and give the further
necessary orders. Knapsacks, Havresacks and Priming Wires
shall be sent you from Baltimore and Cartouch Boxes from
Kent.
17 August 1776.
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[Tootell to Council.]
Gentlemen. I'm inform'd that the battalion in this City
commanded by Col Hall has receiv'd orders to march. I had
not the least irlea, when I petitionerl your Honours for a
Surgeon's commission to attend that Battalion then quartered
at Annapolis and which I presum'd was station'd, and there
to remain for the protection of that city, that I should have
been request' d to remove. My age and bad health, particu-
larly at this season of the year, would have been a bar againsl
a contract of that kind and interest another Impediment
I could scarce think of leaving home and between three and
four hundred a year, arising from my practice of Physick and
other advantages, to move into another province and leave
my Family, consisting of a Wife a Daughter and a small son
for whom I have the most tender affection, and who in my
absence must inevitably suffer, to embrace a surgeon's place,
which pay would scarce defray my expenses as I should be
oblig'd to travel with a servant and Horses, and perhaps be
ordered by the Surgeon General to what department he
pleas'd.
I have attended the sick soldiers with the greatest assiduity
and care and I believe I have given general satisfaction both
to the officers and soldiers. I have had great fatigue and
trouble with regulating the Military Hospital shop and com-
pounding various Medicines from the gross materials, which
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