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Robert B. Tyler Prince Geo's. Walter Bowie 690:5 :0 ........ April 4th

John Davis Worcester—John P. Marshall and John Ratcliff 375 ........ April 6th

David Lynn Montgomery .... John Lynn 550 £ April 7th.

William Waters Somerset. Thomas S. Sudler £ 150—April 7th

Laurence O'Neale Montgomery William Deakins Jun'r £ 750. May nth

William Weems Ann Arundel. David Weems £ 354 :1 :8 ........ May 15th

Nicholas Merryman Baltimore. Cornelius Howard £ 22:12:3 May 16th
Nicholas Lingan Montg'y. James M. Lingan two Bonds £ 375 and £ 400 May 21st

[p. 91] Levin Handy Worcester with John Done and Levin Winder for 177:15 :7 dated

May 23d 1792

Henry Stonestreet Prince Geo's Edward Edelin for £187:10:0 and £ 19:6:4 two Bonds

dated May 28.

The Auditor is requested to issue a Certificate for the Depreciation of pay to Frederick

Mire late a soldier in the first Maryland Regiment and deliver the same to the Treasurer of the

western shore, who is Ordered to pay it to Hugh McClean Administrator of the said Frederick

Mire.

Wednesday 13th. June 1792

The Council met.

Present as on Yesterday.

Ordered that Peter Engels, Armourer at Frederick town deliver to Major Henry Gaither
one Barrel of Damaged Gun Powder for the use of the troops raising for the western Expedition.

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Benjamin Mackall Esq'r. Fifty pounds
for a quarter's Salary as one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals due the 1st of May last.

[p. 92] Thursday 14. June 1792

The Council met.
Present The Governor

Mr. Brice

Mr Ridgely

Mr Stone

Mr. Davidson

Whereas Abraham Britton on the 6th of February 1782 bonded to the State with
Abraham Wright and Thomas Miles his Securities in the Sum of six hundred and thirty four
pounds, ten shillings, and by the Petition of Thomas Miles, one of the Securities above men-
tioned, it appears that a considerable part, and best, of the land for which the bond was given,
and which was intended to have been sold, was not included within the lines on a survey being
made, that Abraham Britton the principal in the bond has removed out of the State, and left no
property behind him, that Abraham Wright the other Security, is insolvent and that the
Petitioner has been in confinement on account of the said Debt, by which he has suffered
greatly, that he has a wife and five Children to support and no person to labour for them but
himself. Several respectable Characters of Baltimore County having certified their belief in the
facts as stated in [p. 93] the said Petition to be true, and Luther Martin Esq'r. in his
letter to the Agent corroborates the facts respecting Britton and Wright, and as to the family