2 Journal and Correspondence

Liber C B
No. 23

& Obediah Pritchard of Harford County to Testify on the Hearing
of the Complaint of Thomas Dorsey complaining of an undue and
irregular Election of Sheriffs for Harford County —
Lieut Thomas Cromwell is appointed Capt Lieut to the 4^th Mary-
land Regiment
John Hamilton first Lieut and John Randall Ensign in the same
Reg^t
Samuel Hamilton is appointed Ensign in the 6^th Regim^t
Capt Lieut Benjamin Price is appointed Capt, in the 2^d Maryl^d
Regim^t
L^t John Gassaway is appointed Capt Lieut in same Regim^t
William Woolford is appointed a first Lieut in D^o
Thomas Boyd son of Abraham Ensign in D^o
Zedekiah Moore is app^d Ensign in D^o and
Edmund Compton is app^d an Ensign in the 1 Maryland Regiment
This Board do approve the above Appointments and request Com-
missions may issue accordingly from the Board of War —

Liber C C

No. 22

p. 33

[Council to Gen. William Smallwood]

In Council Annapolis 27^th Oct^r 1779

Sir We have inclosed you a Letter to his Excell^y Gen^l Washing-
ton, requesting that a fourth Company of Artillery may be formed
of the three we have at Camp, to be commanded by a Major; there
are Men enough for it & still to spare and it will give an Opportunity
of gratifying the Officers of Brown's & Dorsey's Companies, who
complain, with, at least, a Shew of Reason, and we shall then keep
our own Men together. We request the Favor of you to deliver the
Letter at a proper Time and, as far as you may think it right, join
in our Request to the General. We are &^ca

P. 34

[Council to Gen'l G. Washington]

Sir. On hearing that the two Companies of Matrosses kept here
and at Baltimore by this State, were directed by the Assembly to be
incorporated and sent into the Continental Service, Cap^t Lieu^t James
Smith of Brown's Company & Cap^t Lieu^t Edward Finley of Dorsey's
Company, wrote to the Governor proposing their Pretensions to rise,
if any Appointments were to take Place in that Company. The Man-
ner of their Writing, it being with great Temper on what they
esteemed an interesting Point of Right, is a Confirmation, in some
Degree, of what we have heard of their Merit: before we received
their Letter, the Company was commissioned, and that, as we con-
ceive, in the Manner we should have been obliged to commission it,
if we had received the Letter, immediately on the Act of Assembly