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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761. 283
At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Monday Lib. J. R.
the first Day of May in the eighth Year of his Lordship's & U. S.
Dominion Annoque Domini 1758.
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq: Governor.
Benjamin Tasker Esq. Richard Lee Esqr
Col Charles Hammond Benedict Calvert Esqr
Samuel Chamberlaine Daniel Dulany Esq.
honourable Esq.
Col. Benjamin Tasker
Read Capt: Brown's Certificate of Return to W William
Ringgold as follows.
I do hereby certify by Virtue of an Act of Assembly, en
titled, An Act for the ordering and regulating the Militia of
this Province for the better Defence and Security thereof,
that the following Persons being enlisted Soldiers in my
Company of Kent County was by me commanded to appear
on the nineteenth Day of February last and serve in Arms
for the necessary Defence of the Province, against the In
vasion of the French and their Indian Allies in this Time
of open War, I having received orders to march to the
Western Frontiers of this Province with my said Company,
and notwithstanding such my Command Thomas Honour,
Thomas Bryant, John Edmonson, James Poole, John Rosser,
John Glassford, John Deale, James Cully John Williams
Constable, George Brown a Boatman, Charles Welding jun
ior Isaac Aliwinkle, James Underhill, Edmund Carter Mer
chant, William Coburne Thomas Kennard, James Kull,
Stephen Roe, Benjamin Greenwood, Bartholomew Haven,
Samuel Tansey, John Hicks junior David Wood Edward
Swaney, James Price, Timothy Course, James Price junior
John Redding, and James Jackson, hath obstinately refused
to or will not appear and serve in Arms for the necessary
Defence of this Province against the Invasion of our said
Enemies contrary to the Form of the Act of Assembly afore
said, and the following Persons are those who from my own
Knowledge are too infirm to march, being disordered by
Pleurisies Fluxes, very had sore Legs &c.. vizt Joseph Brisco,
Roger Hails,.James Noble, George Dent, John Gale junior, p. 246
Peter Cole, Jonathan Turner, William Briscoe Philip Rick
etts, James Trulock, James Kelly, George Norris, Abraham
Porter, Robt Cill. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my Hand and affixed my Seal this first day of March 1758.
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