320 Proceedings and Correspondence

February 20
Liber No. 78
p. 66

continue t© act as Lieutenant of the County and have at your request
accepted your Resignation and appointed Doctor Thomas to succeed
you to whom we have given Directions respecting the Militia Guard.
The third of this Instant we directed the Commissaries of Prince
Georges Charles and S^t Mary's Counties to forward all the Pro-
vision they had or could procure to M^r Richardson who was at the
same Time desired to send it to Frederick Town for the Convention
Troops with all possible Expedition. We have wrote to M^r Murdock
to send Waggons to M^r Brookes Commissary of Prince George's
County for the Provision in that County, we have not yet received
an Answer from Congress to the Appreciation for the Removal of
the Prisoners out of our State, enclosed you will receive a late Pensyl-
vania Paper with a supplement containing the King of Great Britain's
Speech to his Parliament the 2^d of November last, and M^r Greens
last Paper.

Ibid.

[Council to Thomas Johnson Esqr.]

We received your Favor of the 18^th Instant and from Information
have no Doubt of Wall's being a Dangerous Person and that it is
proper he should be arrested and sent down to us, that we make
Inquiry into his general Conduct and the Several Circumstances
mentioned in your Letter. We have sent a Warrant to the Lieutenant
of Frederick for that Purpose. If it should appear to us necessary
to confine him we shall send him to Baltimore Goal.

Ibid.

[Council to Phillip Thomas, Esqr.]

We have received your letter of the 17^th current recommending
M^r Maroney his Commission as Cornet goes herewith. Colonel Baker
Johnson in his Letter of the 11^th request that some Gentleman may
be appointed Lieutenant of Frederick County and a Captain of the
Guard over the British Troops in his Stead. Enclosed you will re-
ceive a Commission appointing you Lieutenant of Frederick County,
and it is our wish that you command the Guard over the Convention
Troops yourself or appoint a fit Person for that Purpose. It may be
proper to inform you that the Assembly at their late Meeting Re-
solved that the Governor and Council be requested to direct the
Maryland Part of the German Regiment and Capt Brown's Company

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of Matrosses to march to Frederick Town as a Guard over the British
Convention Troops and that they strengthen the said Guard by join-
ing thereto a full Company of Militia from each of the Counties of
Ann Arundel Baltimore Prince Georges Frederick and Montgomery
or so many as they may think necessary and that the said Militia be
releived by other Companies if necessary from the said Counties. In
Consequence of that resolution Orders were given to L^t Col Weltner
of the German Battalion and to Capt. Brown of the Matrosses; to