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That the said Treasurer pay to Benjamin Talbot four
Pounds fifteen shillings per Account passed.

That the said Treasurer pay to Capt. Thomas Walker sixty
Doll^s on Acct Doct^r Thomas Howard is appointed Assistant
Surgeon to the Matross Companies in Annapolis.

Monday 22^d September 1777.
Present as on Saturday

Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Lieut
James Allison twelve pounds on Account of Col^o Gists Regi-
ment he having brought down some Prisoners.
That the said Treasurer pay to Martin Watts five hundred
Pounds to be delivered over to M^r George Murdock Conti-
nental Commissary at Frederick Town to be charged to the
Continent.
Commissions issued to Frederick Hill appointed first Lieut.
Edward Nothorn Nelms second Lieut. Archibald Smith Ensign
of Capt. Robert Handy's Company. John Jones Capt John
Denwood first Lieut. Thomas Maddux Jun^r Second, Alexander
Adams Ensign of Princess Ann Comp^y David Wilson Capt
Henry Jackson first Lieut. Ezekiel Gilliss second Lieut. James
Elzey Ensign of Back Creek Company William Waters of
John Capt. Isaac Handy first Lieut Ballard Bozman second Lieut.
John Ewing Ensign of Great Annamesex Company. George
Waters Capt. William Stevens first Lieut William Hayward
second Lieutenant Robert Jenkins King Ensign of Pocomoke
Company. William Waters of Will^m Capt. Samuel Dixon
first Lieut. Thomas Williams second Lieut. James Curtis
Ensign of S^t Asaph Company. John Williams Capt. Thomas
King first Lieut Benjamin Schoolfield second Lieut David
Williams Ensign of Watkin's Point Comp^y Thomas Irving
Capt. John Dashiell first Lieut John Jones of Robert second
Lieut. Gavin Wright Ensign of Monie Comp^y Henry Miles
Capt. John Horsey first Lieut Nathaniel Juet second Lieut
William Dixon Ensign of Little Annamessex Comp^y belong-
ing to the Princess Anne Battalion of Militia in Somerset
County, and also to Joseph Vennables Capt. Benjamin Ven-
nables first Lieut John Weatherby second Lieut. George
Gilliss Ensign of Barron Creek Company. Levin Irving Capt
Gilliss Polk first Lieut. James Hayner second Lieut Isaac
Henry Ensign of Black Water Comp^y John Span Conway
Capt. John M^cClester first Lieut. George Handy second Lieut.
William Stewart Ensign of a Nanticoke P^t Comp^y Henry
Gale Capt. James Polk first Lieut John Leatherbury second
Lieut Robert Dashiell Ensign of Quantico Comp^y William

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