42    Records of Maryland Troops in the Continental Service

FREDERICK COUNTY-LOWER DISTRICT. [MONTGOMERY COUNTY.]

Capt. Edward Burgess     	Capt. Leonard Deakins    	Capt. Benjamin Spyker
1 Lt. John Gaither       	1 Lt. Thomas Nowland     	1 Lt. Greenbury Gaither
2 Lt. Thaddeus Beall     	2 Lt. Elisha Williams    	2 Lt. Richard Anderson
Ensign Thomas Edmondson		Ensign John Griffith, re-  	Ensign Nicholas Scybertt
    				signed and Dennis Grif
    				fith appointed by the
    				Council of Safety, Oct.
    				2nd, 1776.


    A List of Capt. Edward Burgess' Company of Militia in the
Lower District of Frederick County, viz:

     Edward Burgess, Capt.    		Alexander Estep, 2nd Lieut.
     Thomas Edmonston, 1st Lieut.  	Zephaniah Beall, Ensign.

*Nathan Orme			Alexcious Simms 		John Wilcoxen
*Richard Weaver Barnes  	Thomas Nichols 			Richard Burgess
*Charles Gartrell 		Laurance Hurdle  		John Fryback
*Alexander Lazenby  		William Crow   			Daniel Lewis
Edward Harden			Lenard Wood           		John Ryan
*Zachariah Aldridge 		Saml. Carter   			Benj. Tucker
*Samuel Beall White 		Thomas Beall   			Wevour Waters
*Nathan Waters			Kinsey Hanee         		Morris Brashears
*Benjamin Fitzjarrald   	Joseph Gartrell     		Obed Wilison
*Gilbert Bryan			*John Geehan, (or Guhan) 	Stephen Gatrell
*Nathan Musgrove		James Hurvy        		James Beall, (of Roger)
*James Burgess			Edward Trout         		John Elwood
*Benjamin Burgess   		Samuel Solamon 			James Carter
Arthur Legg       		William Hopkins  		Josiah Harding, (Harden)
*Thomas Freeman   		*Miles Mitchell  		Henry Clark
John Sheekels,(orShukels) 	*Thomas Wood       		John Nichols
*John Ray         		*Charles Maccubin Rey-     	Alexander Robert Beall
*Shadrech Penn, (Peen)		nolds   			William Garten
*Zephaniah Browning 		*Joseph Estep  			Solomon Dickerson
*George Fryback   		*John Tuckker    		William Young Conn
*John Hanson Wheeler		Jeremiah Ferrell    		Marthew Lodgeade
*Samuel Wheeler   		Samuel Purnal    		Leaven, (Leven), Beall
* Thomas Culver    		Thomas Sheekels,(Shukels) 	John Ferrell
*Henry Lazenby     		Thomas Gittings 		William Hicke
*Jeremiah Beall   		Archibald Hoskinson   		Dennis Marhay
John Harding			Alexander Barratt      		John Crook
*Samuel Taylor Orme 		Owen Haymon    			Samuel Taylor
*Thomas Wallis          	Alexander Edmonston Beall 	William Blackburn
*John Lashyear, (Layzare) 	John Beaden        		Richard Nicholasson
Reson Hollon      		Alexander Tucker

* Proceedings of the conventions of Maryland, p. 177.