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Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, 1779-1780
Volume 43, Page 69   View pdf image (33K)
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of the Council of Maryland. 69


Ordered That the western shore Treasurer pay to Jeremiah Swain
five thousand five hundred Pounds to be delivered over to Capt.
George Keeports on Account.
That the said Treasurer pay to John Wilmot fifty thousand Pounds
to be by him delivered over to Capt. George Keeports to be by him
delivered over to the following — John Randall thirty thousand
Pounds to be expended by him in Rum &ca for the Officers and Sol-
diers of the Maryland Line agreeable to the Act relating to the Offi-
cers & Soldiers of this State in the American Army and for other
Purposes therein mentioned — ten thousand Pounds to General Gist
and the other ten thousand Pounds to Colo Gunby of the 7 Regiment
to be expended in the Recruiting Service and Accounted for.
That Capt. Keeports deliver to Elijah Evans of the late Colo
Rawlings Regimt 13 1/4 yds blue Cloth, i£ yds white and 3 yds shalloon
in part of the Articles allowed by the Genl Assembly.
The following Persons are hereby recommended to the Board of
War for Commissions to wit Lieut Colo Adams to the 1st and Lieut
Colo Woolford to the 5th Regimt

Henry Baldwin Ens. to the 3d Regimt John Tolson Lowe, Caleb
Mason, John Sears & Jacob Crawford Ensigns in 2d Regimt David
Luckett, John Nelson, William Noyes, Francis Shepherd, Mark
McPherson, Richard Coe, John Trueman, Henry Clements, Robert
Halkerston, Walter Dyer, William Reason, John Cheers, David
Green, Robert Green, Thomas Jenkins, Benjamin Fickle Robert
Yeates, James Thompson, William Smoot, John Smith, and The-
ophilus Tabbs, Ensigns in the first Maryland Brigade and also Jacob
Rittenhouse Shoemaker Ens. in the second Maryland Brigade.

Liber C B
No. 23
p. 105

[Council to General Gist]

Sir Your Favor of the 29th Decr came to Hand. We have sent
you £10.000 by Mr Keeports to enable you to reenlist the Men, whose
Times will shortly expire. The Bounty, in Money allowed by this
State, exclusive of the Continental is 250 Dollars to each Recruit,
and we suppose, the sum sent will be sufficient for the present; if it
should not, be pleased to inform us, what you apprehend will be ade-
quate to that Purpose, and we shall take Care to have it forwarded
by the earliest Opportunity. We are about appointing Serjeants to
be commissioned, recommended from the first Brigade. If you have
any in your Brigade, that you can recommend and would wish to be
commissioned, please to inform us, that we may appoint them.
Enclosed is the recruiting Act passed the last Session

[Council to Colo. John Gunby.]

Sir We have sent you £10,000 by Mr Keeports to enable you to
reenlist the Men whose Times will shortly expire. The Bounty in

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 59



 
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