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GENERAL, GREENE TO GENERAL WASHINGTON. Prospect-Hill, March 11, 1776. SIR: Major Cudworth, lately discharged from Colonel Whetcomb’s Regiment, has arrived, to Join Colonel Bond’s. He is agreeable to the Field-Officers, and satisfactory to the Captains and subalterns. The Major is a good, prudent officer, and left the former regiment only because there was not proper order and discipline maintained in it. I esteem him worthy the appointment; and if your Excellency’s sentiments correspond with mine, should be glad he might receive an appointment to fill the vacancy in Colonel Bond’s Regiment. I am, with profound respect, your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant, NATHANIEL GREENE. To General Washington. TALBOT COUNTY COMMITTEE TO MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY. In Committee, Talbot County, March 12, 1776. GENTLEMEN: It appearing to this Committee that it was the intention of the last Convention that non-enrollers should, previous to the 1st of this month, be informed of the alternative given them; and the proceedings of that Convention not being come to their hands until the 3d instant, (on which day they, by advertisement, gave publick notice of the rule,) they conceive it would be extremely rigorous, and contrary to the sense, though agreeable to the letter of the resolve of Convention, to proceed immediately to levy fines on and compel the delivery of the arms of such non-enrollers. They therefore pray your advice in the premises with all convenient speed. We are, gentlemen, your most obedient servants. By order: JAMES LLOYD CHAMBERLAINE, Chairman. To the Honourable the Council of Safety of Maryland. JOHN McLURE AND JOHN E. HOWARD TO MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY. Baltimore, March 12, 1776. GENTLEMEN: Being appointed by the Committee of Baltimore County to procure wagons to bring the arms from Philadelphia to your city, we now send you eight boxes of arms, and ten reams of cartridge-paper. We have an order for a ton of lead, which please to return by them. We are, most respectfully, gentlemen, your obliged and obedient servants, JOHN MCLURE, JOHN E. HOWARD. To the Honourable the Council of Safety of Maryland. MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO TALBOT COUNTY COMMITTEE.
GENTLEMEN: Alexander Wickham was apprehended and brought before us yesterday, in consequence of a letter from Mr. Samuel Sharpe to Messrs . Wallace and Davidson, set ting forth that the said Wickham was a person inimical to the liberties of this country, and was suspected of being on his way to Lord Dunmorc . As the trial of Wickham before our Board would, at this time, interfere with business of great importance to the Province, and as the witnesses on both sides reside on the Eastern Shore, we have thought proper to send him, under the custody of Lieutenant Frazer, to your Committee, in order that you may try and determine the truth of the offence laid to his charge. You will therefore proceed to make the proper inquiry into this matter, and conduct yourselves therein as you shall judge most conducive to the publick good. We are, &c. To the Committee of Talbot County. MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO BALTIMORE COMMITTEE.
GENTLEMEN: We have impatiently expected information from your town of the arrival of the gunpowder and arms from Philadelphia; and having no regular intelligence from you, do not know they are safe, although we hear they are arrived. We request, if they are, you will secure the powder in the best manner, and immediately send down the arms in wagons, with what cartouch-boxes, belts, and gun-slings can be spared, under a guard to this city. We are, &c. To the Committee of Observation for Baltimore County. MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO CAPTAINS HENRY AND KENT.
GENTLEMEN; We have received your favour of the 28th February, communicating the agreeable information that our letter of the 14th had given much satisfaction to you and your respective companies, and also that you had arrived at your station, after a long and fatiguing march, in good health and spirits; and are sorry it is not in our power to make pro vision for those gentlemen who, at your request, attended you in the character of physicians; however, we assure you we will represent the matter to the next Convention, and do not doubt they will take it into consideration, and com pensate them for their trouble, and the services they may render. We will supply you, by the first safe opportunity, with what money we apprehend may be sufficient to defray the expenses of your march up, and furnish you with the Continental Regulations relative to wages and rations, as soon as we can procure them. The assurances you give us, that you will endeavour to render all the satisfaction you can to the inhabitants of Northampton County, are very agreeable, as we are fully confident you will act correspondently to your profession, which will redound much to the honour of your Province, and reflect deserved encomiums on yourselves. We are, &c. To Captains Henry and Kent. Baltimore, March 12, 1776 . To the Publick in general, and the Ladies in particular. Our repose, which we have hitherto enjoyed in a preference to our neighbouring Colonies, is at last disturbed; and we are now called forth to our defence. The alacrity with which our brave countrymen assemble, and the determination to fight visible in every countenance, demonstrate that, if the enemy should be hardy enough to encounter them, we have reason to expect some wounds. The necessity of taking all imaginable care of those who may happen to be wounded in the country’s cause, urges us to address our humane Ladies, to lend us their kind assistance in furnishing us with linen rags and old sheeting, for bandages, &c., &c., to be delivered to either Dr. Weisenthall, Dr. Boyd, Dr. Craddock, or any member of the Committee. It is recommended to all the Printers in this Province to publish the above. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA TO A GEN TLEMAN IN ENGLAND, DATED MARCH 12, 1776. No doubt you feel anxious for your country, and will be pleased to hear how matters stand on this side of the water. I shall, therefore, begin to the northward, with Quebeck . The whole Province, except the city, submitted to the Continental Arms, under the brave General Montgomery, before the 1st of December; and, notwithstanding the severe climate, he marched with his men to join Colonel Arnold at Quebeck, before which he lay till near the last; when the time of many of his soldiers being expired, he resolved on an attack, in which he fell, as you will see by the papers. Since which, our people have kept up the blockade of the town with about five hundred men. The hardship those men have gone through is hardly credible, and too long for this letter. When the news of Montgomery’s fall and defeat reached the other Colonies, it did not damp their spirits, but raised them. The Congress voted more regiments, which were immediately raised; and in two months from this defeat, two thousand new-raised troops joined General Arnold before Quebeck; and by the middle or latter end of March, that army will amount to five or six thousand men, when Quebeck will be again attempted. Boston is still in the hands of Howe; but we are in hourly expectation of hearing of their flight, as General Washington was to begin
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