618 Assembly Proceedings, Mar. 28-May 13, 1758.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 50
April 24

last, and find, that on the said 8th Day of October there were
Mustered at Fort-Frederick in Capt. Dagworthy's Company, the
second Lieutenant, 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 28 Private Men present
at the Fort, the Captain, first Lieutenant, Surgeon, 3 Serjeants, 3
Corporals, 1 Drummer, and 38 Private Men, on Party, and 2 Private
Men on Furlough. In Capt. Alexander Beall's Company, the Cap-
tain, first and second Lieutenants, the Ensign, 3 Serjeants, 3 Cor-
porals, 1 Drummer, and 46 Private Men at the Fort; I Private Man
in Prison; 1 Corporal and 11 Private Men on Party; 1 Serjeant
and 6 Private Men Ranging. In Capt. Joshua Beall's Company,
the Captain, second Lieutenant, Ensign, 1 Corporal, 1 Drummer, and
28 Private Men at the Fort; 2 Private Men in the Hospital; the first
Lieutenant, 3 Serjeants, 3 Corporals, and 42 Private Men on De-
tachment; 1 Serjeant, and 6 Private Men on Party. In Capt. Francis
Ware's Company, the Captain, first and second Lieutenants, the
Ensign, 1 Serjeant, and 21 Private Men at the Fort; 2 Serjeants, 2
Corporals, and 39 Private Men on Detachment; 1 Corporal, and 13
Private Men on Party, and 4 Private Men Ranging. In Capt.
Richard Pearis's Company, the first and second Lieutenants, 2
Serjeants, 1 Corporal, and 15 Private Men at the Fort; 1 Private
Man Sick in the Hospital; the Captain, 2 Serjeants, 1 Corporal, the
Drummer, and 29 Private Men on Detachment; 1 Private Man in
Prison; 1 Corporal, and 28 Private Men on Party; 6 Private Men
Ranging; and 1 Private Man on Furlough: The 5 Companies con-
sisting in the whole, of 5 Captains, 10 Lieutenants, 5 Ensigns, 19

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Serjeants, 18 Corporals, 4 Drummers, and 374 Private Men, whereof
3 Captains, 8 Lieutenants, 4 Ensigns, 7 Serjeants, 6 Corporals, 2
Drummers, and 142 Private Men appear to have been then at Fort-
Frederick; 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Ensign, 1 Surgeon, 4 Ser-
jeants, 6 Corporals, 1 Drummer, and 102 Private Men on Party;

1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 7 Serjeants, 6 Corporals, 1 Drummer, and
no Private Men on Detachment; 1 Serjeant, and 16 Private Men
Ranging; and 2 Private Men on Furlough. Your Committee cannot
avoid mentioning a Circumstance attending the Muster Rolls of
Capt. Dagworthy's Company, which in their Opinion is somewhat
extraordinary : The Rolls of that Company for the Months of July,
August and September, are returned separately, and with different
Circumstances, and also different Certificates indorsed on them; yet
it appears by the Date of those Rolls, that the Musters were all
taken at the same Time, viz. the 8th Day of October last; from which
it is obvious, that there has been a Failure in point of Duty, either
in the Commanding Officer in not Mustering the Troops, or in the
Commissary of Musters in not attending when such Musters were

taken, agreeable Co the Directions of the Act of Assembly made at

Baltimore-Town, entituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, and
the more immediate Defence and Protection of the Frontier Inhabi-