216 Journal and Correspondence

C. C.

Money or some Mode for Payment of the Carriage. If you
have got the Removal of our Powder to Fred^k in a fair Way,
we would have it continued by those who have the Charge of
it, if the Casks are not fit to remove, they must, if they can, be
made fit; if they cannot, good new Casks must be procured
and the Powder started. We are &^ca
To M^r Isaac M^cHard
now at Baltimore

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[Council to Dashiell and others.]

In Council Annapolis i6'^h Ap^l 1777.
Gentlemen
From your State of the Circumstances of the Insurgents in
your Possession, we could wish it was in our Power to save
you the Trouble, and the Public the Expence of sending them
hither, but they must be sent up; we imagine it will be the
easiest and cheapest way to send them by Water, with a
Guard not numerous, but sufficient to take Care of them.
The Soldiers & Blankets have been delivered by M^r Hitch.
Dashiell, Scott & We are &^ca
Stewart.

C. B.

April 17^th 1777.

Lieutenant Colonel John Gunby appointed Colonel of the
seventh Regiment of Continental Troops raised by the State
of Maryland.
Major Thomas Woolford appointed Lieutenant Colonel in
the second Regiment, and Major Benjamin Forch, in the sixth
Regiment in the Room of Lieutenant Colonel Shryock, who
resigned.
James Fernandas second Lieutenant appointed first Lieu-
tenant in the Room of Walter Brooke Cox, who resigned.
Samuel M^cPherson Ensign appointed second Lieutenant, in
the Room of James Fernandas.
Elihu Hall Junior appointed Ensign in the first Company of
the first Regiment.
Vachel Burgess appointed Ensign of the eighth Company
in the first Regiment.
Ordered, That the Western Shore Treasurer pay to Ebenezer
Handy twenty five shillings for a Blanket.
That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut^t Edward Duvall four
pounds, seven shillings for Blankets for four soldiers in Cap-
tain Neal's Company.
That the said Treasurer pay to David Hunter fifteen pounds,
five shillings, for Am^t of Acc^t