302 Journal and Correspondence

C.S. C.

No. 190.

[Council to Baltimore Committee.]

The Committee of Observation for Balt^o Co^ty
Gentⁿ We approve y^r choice of M^r Ezekiel Towson to
command, the guard at the Magazine, & request that he would
hire twelve men to keep guard alternately according to orders
he may give them the highest Price we have allowed for pri-
vates at other Magazines is forty five shillings — some are got
for forty, we leave it to Lieut^t Towson to hire the men upon
the best Terms he can, not exceeding 457 per month, the
public to find them rations.
26^th Sep^t 1776.

Original.

[Charles Rumsey and others to Council.]
Caecil County Sep^r 26^th 1776

Gentlemen
Agreable to the Resolves of Convention we have Indeav-
oured to have a Company Raised under Cap^t Samuel Evans,
Leiutenant Henry Dobson, 2^d Leiut. Thomas Ramsey, Ensign
William Stuart, which hope you will Commission, They have-
ing Raised Sixty Six Men, which Leiutenant Dobson will
return you lists of, And Expect the company will be full in a
few days, Coll Hollingsworth will furnish them with Twenty
Guns fitted, and we will Buy out of the Militia Twenty five
more, which is all can ingage for, as the Battalion has furnished
most of her best Pieces before. Maj^r Parker can furnish us
with as much Lining as will make Ten Tents, which beg you
will give orders to have made in Philadelphia, as the Cap^t has
Raised a number of his Neighbours, that would not go into
the Servise unless they had them, at this advanced Season, or
would he Receive his Commission without them, Blanketts
may be had but very High. We can purchase Cartouch Boxes
& flints if ordered. Knapsacks wire & brushes with Can-
teens, the residue of Arms we expect to be furnished with,
the Company is now on Rations, as it is impossible to keep
them otherwise. A Drum and fife we can furnish if ordered.
I have Received three hundred and thirty three pounds Ten
Shillings, which will not be near Sufficient, therefore hope you
will furnish us with at least five Hundred more, by the Bearer
M^r Henry Dobson, and dont Doubt but every thing will be
had, so as the Company may march by Monday comin week
We are Gentlemen
Your Most Ob^t Serv^t
Charles Rumsey
H Hollingsworth
Edw^d Parker