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Guards over the Powder until the place of Cap^t Hindman's '
Company is supplied by a Flying Camp Company, when they
will be raised armed & equip'd for that or any other purpose,
you can ascertain full as well if not better than we can, as to
the number of men requisite for a Guard, you must certainly
be a more competent judge than we can be.
30^th July

C. S. C.

[Council to Barnes and Elliott.]

Capt^s Barnes & Elliott
Gentⁿ You are requested to furnish Capt. Dean with as
much Ammunition & Flints as will be necessary for his Comp^y,
while it continues upon Kent Island out of the Powder, Lead
& Flints del^d to you by the Council of Safety.
July 30^th 1776

No. 97.

[Council to Griest.]
M^r Isaac Griest
Sir. We received the several patterns of wooden Bottles
alias Kegs. We should be much obliged to you to bespeak
two thousand of them, of the sort marked at 2/7 — we approve
of it, & imagine you can engage a quantity much cheaper than
a single one; we desire you will bespeak them immediately.
30^th July 1776

No. 98.

[Queen Anne's County Committee to Council.]

Gentlemen. 30^th July 1776.
We take the liberty to inform you that Cap^t Dean's com-
pany are armed and have marched to Kent Island agreeable
to their orders, and that Capt Dames's Company are full but
we are clear of opinion that arms cannot be got for them in
this county. We believe between twenty and thirty Firelocks
may be had on Kent Island on loan for the Defence of any
part of this county but the people will not part with them to
go out of the county, and indeed these are the terms upon
which chief of the Arms lent to Cap^t Deans company have
been procured.
We thought it necessary to give you this information rela-
tive to Cap^t Dames's company that you may take such steps
as may be in your power to furnish them with arms.
Cap^t Dames is in a very disagreable situation with his men
who are continually complaining to him of the want of
employment, and of the necessity they have been under of
boarding themselves out until they receive orders to march.
By order of the Committee
I am y^r obed^t Serv^t
Turbutt Wright Chairman

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