644  		 Records of Maryland Troops in the Continental Service


  DATE.     	NAME.                  		REMARKS.

Feb 24th	Joseph Staplefort    		present
    do   	Spencer Saunders   		   do
    do   	Perry Harrison       		dischd. by M. Gist 25th Inst.
   25th  John Noble          present
   26th  Richardson Gamble     do
Mch 1st  James Sulivan         do
     do  Patrick Caton         do
    7th  John Heron            do
   14th  Patrick Connerly      do
   15th  Richard Frazier       do
     do  Dennis Devine         do
   19th  William Hale          do
   21st  Hooper Elliot         do
   28th  John Martin, D. C.    do
     do  Thomas Hayard         do
     do  James Andrew          do
Apl 1st  Saml. Spencer         do
    8th  William Hays          do     		Total
     do  James Urey            do    		1 Captain
   10th  Jeremiah Andrew       do    		3 Lieutenants
May 2nd  Robert Skinner        do    		4 Serjeants
     do  James Haney           do    		4 Corporals
    9th  Thomas Hart           do    		1 Fifer
Apl 4th  Richard Burt          do    		89 Privates

               True Copy from the original Muster Roll of my Company.
  						Thos. Woolford.
     			M 				G. Duvall, Muster Master.


               EASTERN SHORE MILITIA COMPANIES ORDERED TO VIRGINIA.

               RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS- 8 JANUARY, 1776.

	"Resolved, That the convention or committee of safety of Maryland,
be requested to order three companies of the minute-men in the service
of that colony, to march immediately from thence to the counties of
Accomack and Northhampton, in Virginia, instead of the forces that
were directed to go thither from Pennsylvania, and to lay before
Congress the accounts of their subsistence and pay, which shall be paid
out of the continental treasury."

               RESOLVES OF THE MARYLAND CONVENTION- 15 JANUARY, 1776.

	"Resolved, That the minute company in Dorchester county com-
manded by captain Joseph Robson, and the minute company in Queen
Anne's county commanded by captain James Kent, and the minute com-