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Liber C C
No. 22
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[Council to the Board of War]
Gentlemen We have been informed there have been frequent In-
stances of States exchanging Officers taken by the Militia for those
of their respective States, in the Hands of the Enemy even without
an Application to your Honorable Board or His Excellency. If we
are rightly informed, and such Practice has generally prevailed and
been acquiesced in, it is our earnest Desire that Lieut Colonel Con-
nelly who was captivated in this State and is now in your Custody,
being deemed and adjudged by Congress a Prisoner of War and
redeemable, should be exchanged for Lieut Colo Ramsay, an Officer
of extraordinary and distinguished Merit in the Maryland Line.
As those Gentlemen are equal in Rank, we flatter ourselves no Objec-
tion can be made to such Exchange. This Application would not
have been so long neglected, if we had not expected that a general
Cartel would have been established and rendered it unnecessary.
[Council to His Ex'y Gen'l Washington]
Sir We have wrote to the Board of War, requesting that Lieul
Colo Connelly, who was captivated in this State, and is adjudged
by Congress, a Prisoner of War and redeemable, may be exchanged
for Lieut Colo Ramsay, an Officer in the Maryland Line. The extra-
ordinary Merit of this Gentleman makes us very solicitous, that this
Exchange should take Place and has induced us to desire your Ex-
cellency's Interposition in his Favor, if it should be approved by you.
We are informed that there have been several Instances of such
Exchanges having been made to the Advantage of other States, and
from thence are led to hope there will be no Difficulty in complying
with our Request in the first Instance
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