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On Cap' Hawkins Application to us, we have thought
proper to inform you that the Board of Acc^ts will receive our
Directions to allow his receipt for £254 in the Settlement of
your Accounts with them.
To Cap. Sam^l Ridgaway.

C. B.

[Council to H. Lowes.]

In Council Annapolis 16^th March 1778.
Sir.
There appears to us no Probability of your obtaining your
Schooner again, unless on a Discrimination between you and
others, which we hope you would not wish to have done in

your Favour, and would be very improper for U3 to contribute

to. We have already refused on several Applications to
permit People to go to the Enemy to solicit for Negroes
taken or run away from them and shall not, by any Means,
permit the Citizens of this State to entreat for Favors from
the Enemy. We are Sir &^ca
M^r Henry Lowes.

C. C.

[Council to Talbot Judges.]

In Council Annapolis 16^th March 1778.
Gen^l
We inclose you the Letters and Papers received from
Somerset and Worcester Counties about the 22^d Sept^r giving
an Account of the Insurrection which was just then suppressed,
and Copies of the Letters from this Board to Gen^l Hooper &
Col^o George & Col^o Joseph Dashiell, from whence you will
perceive the Charge was not a bare Intention to disturb the
Public Peace, but for an open and deliberate arming and
actually making use of their Arms against us. People may
perhaps think the Imprisonment of those Insurgents severe,
from the long Continuance of it and may hastily conclude it
to be irregular in the Manner of it: but they ought to consider
that an Imprisonment in the Counties where those People
respectively lived, would have been no way secure nor is it
clear that the Justices of Somerset and Worcester Counties
could have committed to any other Jails than those of their
respective Counties and indeed there is no Jail in this State
sufficient without a Guard. It is not unlikely that if Judges of
the General Court had been Qualified, the Persons charged
would have been ordered before them to examine & discharge
or commit, as the Evidence would warrant. There are but
three Prisoners on this Shore, Thomas Wright, The Papers

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