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NORTH-CAROLINA COUNCIL OF
SAFETY.
1776. June 5, | Council
of Safety met at Wilmington, | 1443 |
| Cornelius Harnett chosen
President, | 1443 |
6, | Outlying malcontents in Bladen County, on submission to the laws of the
Colony, permitted to return to their habitations unmolested, | 1443 |
| Captains, Lieutenants and
Ensigns appointed to the Edenton, Newbern, Halifax, and Wilmington Brigades of Militia, now in
actual service under the command of Brigadier-General Ashe, at Cape-Fear, | 1447 |
12, | Samuel Willets convicted of corresponding with the enemy, required to give
bond for his good behaviour, | 1448 |
| Colonel Folsome directed to
make diligent search after the records and papers of the Inferiour Court of Cumberland County,
said to be concealed by disaffected persons, | 1448 |
13, | Inventory of all Salt in the hands of Merchants and Factors to be taken,
| 1449 |
14, | Committee to value the Cannon imported into Newbern, | 1449 |
| Eight of the Cannon to be taken
by the Commissioners of the armed brig Pennsylvania Farmer, at Newbern, | 1450 |
15, | William Maxwell, Colin Campbell, and Donald Campbell, who have been
corresponding with the enemy, sent to the Jail at Newbern, | 1450 |
| Thomas James Emery, charged
with undue practices, tending to inflame the minds of the People, required to remove from the
Town of Newbern to the County of Dobbs, there to remain on his parole, | 1451 |
21, | Inhabitants of the County of Cumberland directed to elect Members to serve on
their Committee, | 1451 |
22, | Courts for hearing and determining maritime matters established at Edenton,
Bath, Newbern, and Wilmington, and Judges appointed, | 1452 |
27, | Armed sloop Heart-of-Oak, George Dennison, Captain, and armed schooner
Johnston, Edward Tinker, Captain, permitted to act against the enemies of the Thirteen United
Colonies, in manner and form as Letters of Marque are permitted by the Continental
Congress, | 1454 |
28, | Order for the arrest of Thomas Harrison and William Taylor, persons
disaffected to the common cause, and endeavouring to dissuade the people from associating in
defence of their liberties, | 1456 |
July 4, | Number of the Inhabitants of the Colony ordered to be taken, in compliance
with the Resolution of the Continental Congress, |
1456 |
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Inventory of all property, real and personal, of suspected persons, to be taken by the Committees
within their respective Counties, | 1456 |
BALTIMORE COUNTY COMMITTEE.
1776 May 7, | Alexander McGee declared to be a
dangerous man, and highly inimical to American liberty, | 1457 |
13, | List of Companies recommended by the Committee to the Convention to be formed
in Baltimore County, | 1457 |
20, | Association Paper, with a list of non-Associators and non-Enrollers, delivered
to the Committee, by Edmund Stansbury, Jun., | 1458 |
28, | Physicians and Surgeons of the County requested to desist from inoculating for
the small-pox, | 1459 |
June3, | Complaint of Miss Goddard, that George Somerville came to her office and
abused her on account of a late publication in her paper, | 1460 |
| Captain Sterret directed to
bring Somerville to the Committee Room, | 1461 |
| He is convicted of an attempt
to influence the liberty of the Press, and censured by the Chairman, | 1461 |
10, | Letter from Isaiah Robinson, First Lieutenant of the Hornet sloop-of-war, to a
member of this Committee, ordered to be published, | 1462 |
| Committee to ascertain the
quantities of salt in the Town and County of Baltimore, | 1462 |
17, | Regulations for the sale of Salt, | 1462 |
1776. June 25 | The exemption from military duty of persons
professing themselves Preachers among the Methodists, Quakers, or other denominations, where
rules of ordination are not generally known, referred to the Council of Safety, | 1463 |
25, | Complaint of Cumberland Dugan against Dr. Henry St’evenson,
| 1464 |
July 1, | Thomas Lloyd convicted of conduct highly inimical to American liberty, and
censured by the Chairman, | 1464 |
MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY.
1776. May 27, |
Council of Safety met at Annapolis, |
1465 |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
chosen President, | 1465 |
| Gabriel Duvall appointed Clerk,
| 1465 |
28, | Charles Carroll, Barrister, appointed Vice President of the
Council, | 1465 |
June 6, | Officers appointed for the Baltimore Town Battalion, and the Soldier’s
Delight Battalion, in Baltimore County, | 1468 |
10, | Convention called, to meet at Annapolis on Thursday, the 20th instant,
| 1469 |
11, | Officers of the Militia in the Middle District of Frederick
County, | 1470 |
13, | Obligation of Cornelius Hogans, to conform to the Rules and Regulations of the
Convention of the Province, | 1471 |
19, | Colonel Smallwood directed to send Alexander McGee, under sufficient guard, to
the Council of Safety, | 1472 |
27, | Seth Paddock, of Massachusetts, permitted to load his sloop May Flower, with
provisions, on the condition not to land his cargo at any port inimical to America, | 1476 |
| Memorial to the Convention by
the Council of Safety, | 1477 |
MARYLAND CONVENTION.
1776 June 21 |
Convention met at Annapolis, | 1485 |
| Committee on a Letter from the
President of Congress, with the Resolutions of 1st, 3d and 4th of June, | 1485 |
| Deputies of Maryland in
Congress desired to get permission to attend the Convention; but not to leave the Congress
before an order is passed postponing the consideration of Independence, foreign alliance, and a
Confederation, until the Maryland Delegates can attend the Congress, | 1485 |
24, | All questions in the Convention to be determined by a majority of the
Members, | 1486 |
| Yeas and Nays to be taken and
entered on the Journal, if required by any one of the Delegates, | 1486 |
| Proceedings on the Letters of
Captain Montagu and Governour Eden, | 1486 |
25, | Debates and Proceedings of the Convention to be publick, unless otherwise
directed, | 1487 |
| Writs of Election that have
been issued in the name of the Proprietary for the election of Delegates in the Assembly, not to
be obeyed, and no election to be made, in consequence thereof, | 1487 |
| Council of Safety to contract
for the build ing, fitting out, and equipping, seven Row-Galleys, | 1487 |
| Detachments of Militia ordered
out to prevent any communication with the Fowey man-of-war, | 1487 |
| Committee on the establishment
of Manufactories, | 1487 |
| Resolutions for furnishing and
equipping three thousand four hundred Militia, to form a Flying Camp, | 1487 |
| Letter to Captain Montagu, on
his breach of the truce, | 1489 |
26, | Council of Safety directed to station armed Boats to prevent any communication
with the Fowey, | 1489 |
27, | Proportion of the Flying Camp to be furnished by the several Counties,
respectively, | 1490 |
| Thomas Johnson elected
Brigadier-General to command the Flying Camp, | 1490 |
| Field Officers for the Flying
Camp, | 1490 |
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