186 Journal and Correspondence

C. S. C.

[Murray to Council.]

Dorchester County, Cambridge Feb^y 26^th 1776.
Gentⁿ We this day received your letter of the 21^st Instant,
and the Comee, being setting, agreeable to your request, took
the matter mentioned therein into consideration, and are of
opinion that the town of Cambridge is the most convenient
and proper Place for the Independent Company of this County
to be stationed in, It is the most central place in the County,
and the Company may with great ease and conveniency march
from thence to any part of the County that may happen to be
attacked, which they could not so readily do, should they be
posted any where else, and we also think it would be very
difficult to accommodate them in any other place than in this
neighbourhood. These, among others, are the reasons that
induce us to prefer Cambridge to any other part of the County.
We are very respectfully, Gentⁿ y^r most ob^t Hble. servants
Signed p^r order
James Murray chairman.

[Report of Charles County Committee.]

At a meeting of the Committee of observation for Charles
County on Monday the 26^th Feb^y 1776 Brigadier General John
Dent Chairman and John Gwinn clerk The following gentlemen
are recommended as officers to be Commissioned to fill up the
vacancies of the late Company of Col^o William Harrison to
Wit, William Winter Junior Captain, George Dent Ju^r I^st
Lieutⁿ John S. Chetton 2^nd Lieutenant and William Barker
Ensign and in consequence of a letter of resignation received
from John S. Chitton, the Committee thought proper to recom-
mend Burdit Hamilton in his stead.
Ditto for the late Company of Major John Marshall Benja-
min Philpot Captain, Henry Dent 1^st Lieutenant, Burf^d Cot-
trett 2^nd Do and Philip Marshall Ensign.
Ditto for the late Company of Col^o Sam^l Hanson, William
McPherson Captain, Peter Green 1^st Lieutenant, Thomas Green
Jun^r 2^d Do and Leonard Hamilton Ensign.
Ditto for the late Company of Col^o Francis Ware, Walter
Hanson of John Captain, Thomas Simms 1^st Lieutenant Jo^s W.
Harrison 2^d ditto and John Beal Twener Ensign.
Ditto for the late Company of Col^o Josias Hawkins, John
Hanson youn^st Captain Henry Massey Hanson 1^st Lieutenant,
James Russell 2^nd ditto and John Griffin Ensign.
Ditto for the late Company of Major Thomas Harris, Jona-
than Yates Captain Richard Hendly Courts 1^st Lieutenant,
John Neall 2^d do and Raphael Boarman J^r Ensign.