of the Council of Maryland, 1777-1778. 525

Monday 2^d March 1778.
P^l as on Friday Thomas Sim Lee Esquire attended

Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Charles
Wallace Esq^r Paym^r one thousand Pounds on Account.
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Thomas
Johnson Jun^r sixty two pounds ten shillings for three months
Salary due him the 20^th ffeb^ry last
That the said Treasurer pay to Capt Benjamin Harwood
four Pounds fourteen Shillings and ten pence due part of his
Independent Company of Mil^a whilst in actual Service per
Account passed.
Joshua Merikin, James Townly Rigby, Jarson Jones &
Zachariah Tucker of Ann Arundel County took the Oath of
Fidelity and support to this State according to the late Act
and Certificates given.
Commissions issued to Elijah Robosson appointed Col.
James Tootel Lieu^t Col. Joseph Merikin Major, Joseph Mac-
cubbin Capt Francis Cromwell first Lieut, Caleb Hazle second
Lieut, Richard Robosson Ensⁿ Philemon Warfield Capt. Lan-
celot Warfield first Lieut. Thomas Warfield second Lieut,
Joseph Warfield Ensign, Vachel Gaither Capt Abraham Ander-
son first Lieut, Stephen Bassford second Lieut, Thomas Fow-
ler Bassford Ensign, John Boone Cap^t Benjamin Fish Ensign
Caleb Owings Capt. Richard Cromwell first Lieut Joshua
Merikin second Lieut, George Hammond Ensign Charles
Boone Capt. Stephen Boone first Lieut, Nich^s Shepherd second
Lieut, William Bishop Ensign, Nicholas Worthington Capt.
Henry Bateman Jun^r first Lieut John Sears second Lieut and
Caleb Burgess Ensign, of the severn Battalion of Militia in
Anne Arundel County also to Thomas Dorsey Col. John
Dorsey Lieut Col. Edward Gaither Major Andrew Ellicot
Capt. Joseph Evans first Lieut, John Burgess Capt. John
Worthington Dorsey Cap. Thomas Ricketts first Lieut, John
Norwood second L^t John Shipley Ensign, Richard Stringer
Capt William Spurrier first L^t Benjamin Warfield Cap^t Henry
Ayton first Lieut, Robert Warfield second L^t Charles Warfield
Ensign, John Dorsey Cap. Nathaniel Owings first L^t Samuel
Brown second Lieut. of Ch^s Hammonds Co. of the Elk ridge
Battalion of Mil^a in A A County, also to John Weems Col.
Richard Harwood Lieut Col. William Brogden Major, Thomas
Watkins Capt Samuel Brogden first Lieut John Ijams Jun^r
second Lieut, William Davis Ensign. Thomas Noble Stockett
first L^t to Capt Tho^s Watkins, Samuel Watkins second Lieut,
Wiliam Harwood Ensign, Abraham Simmons Capt. Thomas
Tongue first Lieut Thomas Morton Jun^r second Lieut, Abel
Hill Ensign. Richard Weems Capt Gideon Dare first Lieut.

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