during the War of the American Revolution, 1775-83.	375

all the rights and privileges of a free citizen of this state without excep
tion.
   	And be it enacted, That the said recruits and militia men, draughted
or otherwise procured to go in the above battalions, shall be subject to
the continental articles of war; and all freemen, although blacks or
mulattoes, who are not deemed vagrants or enlisted as such, shall be
taken into the militia and be subject to a draught as above directed.
   	And be it enacted, That where any three persons, to be appointed
by the governor and council as herein before directed, shall enlist the
whole number of men wanted for that county before the sixteenth of
July next, if the number be equal to that of a full company, to consist of
seventy-four non-commissioned officers and privates, such persons shall
be entitled to commissions as captain, lieutenant, and ensign."

   	List of Recruits & Substitutes for Queen Ann's County procured
under the Law for raising Recruits passed at the October Session, 1780.

   RECRUITS.		TERM OF		SUBSTITUTES.		TERM
   		      ENLISTMENT.			     ENLISTMENT.

John Barnaby   		3 years		Nathaniel Bailey  	9 months
Edward Bartlett  	do 		James Cockrill 		3 years
John Smallwood  	do 		John Harriss  		do
   SUBSTITUTES.
Thomas Harriss  	do  		James Smith  		do
Jacob Collins   	do John Holland  do
Samuel Hadley  		10 December  Charles Nabb   10 December
James Harriss   	doGeorge Penfolddo
Thomas Berry   		doGeorge Belfast 3 years
Daniel Keitch  		9 months  George Ellasdo
Thomas Burk		10 December   Philip Russell do
Arnold Longfellow 	do
   				DRAUGHTS.

Thomas Long		Charles Devons, (subject to fits) Samuel Osburne
Thos. Ford   		Jonathan Briley   		Sabret Huxter
Joseph Dobson		Thomas Chambers   		William Clark,
William Hollingsworth  	David Huxter, (subject to fits)	  (shoe maker)
William Whitaker 	John Jerman   			John Cohee
Benj. Greenage   	Jeremiah Davenport		William Tarbutton
Richard Ratcliff 	Robert Cockleton, 		Joseph Badger
   			 (servt. to Mr. Forman)

				William Hemsley,
	June 11th, 1781.  		Lieut. of Queen Ann's County.