during the War of the American Revolution, 1775-83.   25

                         PRIVATES.
            DATE OF ENLISTMENT.        		    DATE OF ENLISTMENT.
    Thomas --------                    Ezekiel Abbott	Jan 23     	deserted 3
    John Buckley	Jan 24                           			Aug. taken
    John Masterson	    28                           			again 5
    John Garrott	Feb 10                           			Aug.
    Matthew Hardikin 	Jan 23          John Dobson         31  		dead
    Thomas Connerly	    25          John Sweeney 	Feb  1
    William Burgess	     "         	Thomas Liles         2
    William Melony  	     "         	Stephen Byram        6
    Robert Heffernon 	    30          John Murphy          7
    Josias Murdoch	    31 deserted

        Names in the above list, without date of enlistment, are taken from
    a roll published in the "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biog
    raphy," January, 1898, page 503. Stephen Bryan is, perhaps, Stephen
    Byram, and Thomas --- is, perhaps, Thomas Connerly.


    5TH INDEPENDENT MARYLAND COMPANY. [ST. MARY'S COUNTY.]
                  John Allen Thomas, 	Captain,		officers elected by the Con
                  John Steward, 	1st Lieut.		vention Jan. 2nd, 1776.*
                  John Davidson, 	2nd "
                  Henry Neale, 		3rd "

    MUSTER ROLL OF THE  6TH  INDEPENDENT MARYLAND COMPANY.

    [DORCHESTER COUNTY.]


    Commissd. Jan. 5th, 1776.  	Thomas Woolford, Capt. 		present.
	"	"    "	  "	John Eccleston,  1st Lieut.     "
 	"	"    "	  "	Hooper Hodson,   2nd "		"
     	"	Mch. 2nd, 1776. Lilburn Williams, 3rd "		"


    DATE OF ENLISTMENT.  NAMES. 				REMARKS.

     Feb 20     	John Gray		present
          "      	Willm. Woolford		"
     Jan 20     	Hugh McKinley		sick     	in barracks
      Apl 2     	John Linch              " 		dischd. 29th June
     Feb 26     	Hooper Hodson   	present
         20     	William Watts		"
         23     	Jas. McCollester   	"
          7     	Edwd. McFading				dischd. 10th inst
     Mch 15     	Richd. Frazier		"
          4     	Peter Taylor		"

    * Proceedings of the Conventions of Maryland, pp. 67, 68, 73, 93.

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