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GREAT SCARCITY OF CLOTHING AND FOOD FOR THE CONTINENTAL ARMY.
In 1777 the American Army was so greatly in need of clothing and blankets that collectors were appointed in each county to collect these necessities wherever possible. John Ennalls was appointed Superintendent of Collections in Dor- chester County, with the following Collectors: In Great Choptank Hundred, Joseph Richardson; Nanticoke, Zacha- riah Campbell; Transquaking, Joseph Ennalls, Jr .; Little Choptank, Joseph Robert Harrison; Fishing Creek, Thos. Jones; Hermitage, William Travers; Streights, Daniel Fallen.
The Governor and Council limited the prices to be paid as follows: Blankets, £3; a pair of shoes, 30d .; a pair of stockings, 30d .; a hat, 30d .; coarse woolens, fit for soldiers' coats, jackets, or breeches, 34 yard wide, 50d .; linen, fit for C. B. soldiers' shirts, per yard, 16d.
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Feeding the army was also difficult, patriotism alone would not furnish supplies; money was necessary in making pur- chases, though it was at a great depreciation, far below par with silver and gold.
In the following year, want and privation so much discour- aged the soldiers, then in such great demand that bounties were paid for volunteers and deserters were pardoned who returned to duty, while agents were in every county trying to purchase army supplies for the hungry and half-naked soldiers. James Sulivane, of Dorchester County, was the Deputy Assistant Commissary in Dorchester and Somerset, trying, under great difficulties, to purchase food for a starv- ing army.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CORRESPONDENCE IN REFERENCE TO BRITISH PRISONERS HELD AT CAM- BRIDGE-DORCHESTER MILITIA OFFICERS, LOWER AND UPPER BATTAL- IONS, AND HALF BATTALION COMMISSIONED-PRESSING DEMAND FOR ARMY RECRUITS- VOLUNTEERS COMMISSIONED - SUBSTITUTES FUR- WISHED BY THE WEALTHY-NEW ENROLLMENT OF COUNTY MILITIA IN 1780; OFFICERS NAMED-1781, LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR FROM GEN. HENRY HOOPER, EXPLAINING DRAFT, AND INVASION OF BRITISH BARGES IN THE RIVERS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY.
In May, 1778, correspondence between the Council of Safety and the Military Commander at Cambridge shows that a number of British prisoners were then held there under guard of Thomas Smith. Governor Johnson gave orders to Commodore Grason "to proceed with the gallies 'Conqueror' and 'Chester,' boats 'Plater' and 'Amelia' and two boats taken up on this occasion to Cambridge, and there receive into your charge the crew of the British Frigate 'Mer- maid,' now prisoners of war. The prisoners are to be dis- tributed amongst the vessels with a view to convenience and security. Your disposition and prudence, we flatter our- selves, will make it unnecessary for us to give particular instructions as to your treatment of the prisoners. You are to come too off Annapolis for further instructions."
In August following instructions were given Lieut. Henry Hooper to send ten or twelve British prisoners, part of the crew of the "Mermaid," who had been held while sick to Philadelphia for exchange.
LIST OF MILITIA OFFICERS IN DORCHES- TER COUNTY.
UPPER BATTALION, WITH DATE OF COMMISSION.
John Dickinson, Captain, May 20, 1778. Joseph Ennalls, Lieutenant-Colonel, May 20, 1778.
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Joseph Richardson, Major, May 20, 1778. Promoted. John Smoot, Captain, May 20, 1778. Commander in Horse Corps.
Levin Kirkman, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Pro- moted to Captain, July 2, 1781.
Wm. Ennalls Hicks, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Promoted to First Lieutenant, 1781.
Nathan Smith, Second Lieutenant. Appointed Second Lieutenant, 1781.
James Layton, Ensign, May 20, 1778. Resigned.
Charles Adams, Ensign. Appointed August 23, 1781. Jacob Wright, Captain, May 20, 1778.
William Lowe, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
Robert Russum, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
Isaac Low, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
John Langfitt, Captain, May 20, 1778.
Levin Bestpitch, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
George Brown, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
William Phillips, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
Spencer Waters, Captain, May 20, 1778.
Ezekiel Reed, Captain. Appointed Captain April 27, 1778.
Isaac Reed, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
Nehemiah Messick, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Moved out of county.
John Reed, Second Lieutenant. Appointed Second Lieu- tenant, July 28, 1780.
John Twyford, Ensign, May 20, 1778. Resigned.
Frank Turpin, Ensign. Appointed Ensign.
Wm. Walters, Ensign. Appointed Ensign.
Roger Hooper, Captain, March 1, 1779.
Samuel Hooper, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Edward Scotten, Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Walter Rawley, Ensign; December 16, 1779.
Bartholomew Ennalls, Jr., Captain, December 16, 1779. Handley Hanley, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779.
Anthony Manning, Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1779.
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LIST OF MILITIA OFFICERS
Joseph Hooper, Ensign, December 16, 1779.
Joseph Daffin, Captain, December 16, 1779. Promoted Major.
Thomas Logan, First Lieutenant. Promoted Captain, July 28, 1780.
James Sulivan, Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Promoted First Lieutenant. Promoted Captain, July 2, I781.
Willis Newton, Ensign, December 16, 1779. Promoted Second Lieutenant. Promoted First Lieutenant.
Thomas White, Ensign, December 16, 1779. Appointed Second Lieutenant.
John White, Ensign.
James Wright, Captain, December 16, 1779. Gone to Carolina.
William Russum, Captain. Appointed, August 23, 1781. John Miles, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779.
Joseph Stack, Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Jeremiah Connerly, Ensign.
Levin Handley, Captain, December 16, 1779. Ran away. Wm. Ennalls Hooper, Captain. Appointed Captain, July 28, 1780.
John Hooper, Captain. Appointed July 2, 1781.
John Hooper, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Pro- moted Captain.
James Hooper, Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Promoted First Lieutenant.
James McCallister, Second Lieutenant. Appointed, July 2, 1781.
John Marshall, Ensign, December 16, 1779. Substitute. Promoted Second Lieutenant.
John Henry, Captain.
John Muir, First Lieutenant.
Benjamin Bailey, Second Lieutenant.
William Morgan, Ensign.
Jacob Stratton, Ensign, May 20, 1777.
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LIST OF MILITIA OFFICERS IN DORCHESTER COUNTY.
LOWER BATTALION, WITH DATE OF COMMISSION.
Robert Harrison, Colonel, May 20, 1778.
Thomas Jones, Colonel, May 20, 1778. Appointed Col- onel.
Robert Harrison, Colonel. Reappointed Colonel, Feb- ruary, 1781.
Ezekiel Vickers, Major, May 20, 1778.
Nathaniel Manning, Captain, December 16, 1779.
Levin Woolford, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779.
Benjamin Woodward, Second Lieutenant, December 16,
1779.
Charles Stewart, Ensign, December 16, 1779.
Joseph Robinson, Captain, May 20, 1778.
Moses LeCompte, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Resigned.
John Budd, Ensign, May 20, 1778. Promoted First Lieu- tenant August 23, 1781.
John Aaron, Ensign. Appointed August 23, 1781.
Augustus Wheatley, Captain, December 16, 1779.
John Fletcher, Captain. Appointed Captain, July 28, 1780.
William Dail, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Thomas Wheeler, Second Lieutenant.
Thomas Vickers of Jno., Ensign, December 16, 1779. Promoted.
Stephen Ross, Ensign. Appointed.
Roger Jones, Captain, May 20, 1778.
John Bramble, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
John Jones, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
James Woolford, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
Levin Hubbard, Captain, December 16, 1779.
William Thomas, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779.
John LeCompte, Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Thomas Hubbard, Ensign, December 16, 1779.
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LIST OF MILITIA OFFICERS
Benjamin Keene, Captain, May 20, 1778. Resigned. John Keene, Captain. Appointed August 23, 1781.
Richard Tubman, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Appointed August 23, 1781.
John Griffith, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Ap- pointed August 23, 1781.
Benjamin Keene, Ensign. Appointed August 23, 1781. James Byus, Captain, December 16, 1779. Resigned.
Joseph Hubbard, Captain. Appointed Captain, July 28, 1780.
Solomon Jones, First Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Joseph Hubbard, Second Lieutenant, December 16, 1779. Promoted Captain.
Samuel Hubbard, Second Lieutenant. Promoted Second Lieutenant.
William Vickers of Jno., Ensign. Appointed.
Charles Staplefort, Captain, May 20, 1778.
John Scott, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
Samuel Hooper, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
Bestpitch, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
Edward Staplefort, Captain, May 20, 1778.
Hugh McGuire, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
Edward Pritchett, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778.
John McGuire, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
A HALF BATTALION OR CORPS.
Matthew Travers, Captain, May 20, 1778. John Travers, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Philip Ferguson, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. John King, Ensign, May 20, 1778. .
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John Todd, Captain, May 20, 1778. James Davis, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Michael Todd, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Reuben Andrews, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
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Timothy McNamara, Captain, May 20, 1778. Jno. Stewart McNamara, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778_ Charles Johnson, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. John Kirwin, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
Henry Lake, Captain, May 20, 1778. Levin Willin, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Luke Robinson, Second Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. John Todd, Ensign, May 20, 1778.
William Travers, Captain, May 20, 1778. Daniel Fallen, Major, May 20, 1778.
Thomas Eccleston, Captain, May 20, 1778. Levin Travers, First Lieutenant, May 20, 1778. Commis- sioned in Roger A. Hooper's Company. John Stanford, Ensign, May 20, 1778. Commissioned in James Wright's Company. Stephen Ross, Ensign, May 20, 1778. Commissioned in Arthur Whiteley's Company.
The demand for officers and men in 1779 and 1780 could not be fully supplied, though drafts were frequently made from the militia companies until almost every able-bodied man was drafted to fill up the ranks of the fighting army in the field. This called for the organization of new militia to do guard duty at home. Many of the militiamen who were financially able, procured for themselves substitutes from England, Scotland and Canada, to serve in the Continental Army, while they staid at home and still served in the militia. In March, 1779, commissions were issued to Bartholomew Ennalls, appointed Captain of a company in the place of John LeCompte; Handly Handy, First Lieutenant; Anthony Manning, Second Lieutenant, and James Hodson, Ensign; William Ennalls Hicks, Second Lieutenant of Captain Smoot's company, and William Newton, Ensign, of Captain Daffin's company, Upper Battalion of Militia.
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NEW ENROLLMENT
November 2, Lieut. William Woolford, of the Second Maryland Regiment, took to the army the following recruits, viz: Patrick Bryan, Thomas Wyatt, James Harris, Levin Button, William Willen and David Robinson, and also took the following deserters, viz: John Carter, Henry Causey, Daniel Oliver, Laban Bramble and Gabriel Sales, who were sent with Captain Woolford to appear before the Governor and Council for decision whether they were to continue in the army or be discharged.
NEW ENROLLMENT.
DIVISION OF DORCHESTER COUNTY MILITIA INTO BAT- TALIONS RETURNED BY HENRY HOOPER.
July 15, 1780.
Twenty-three companies of Dorset Militia, divided into Battalions in the following order :
For the Upper or Third Battalion, ten companies.
LIGHT INFANTRY.
Capt. Joseph Daffin's company, 61 privates.
Capt. John Smoot's company, 54 privates.
Capt. Barth. Ennalls' company, 66 privates.
Capt. John Henry's company, 64 privates.
Capt. Roger Askom Hooper's company, 64 privates.
Capt. John Langfitt's company, 65 privates.
Lieut. John Hooper's company, 45 privates.
Capt. Jacob Wright's company, 47 privates.
Capt. Ezekiel Reed's company, 64 privates.
Capt. James Wright's company, 55 privates. Total-585.
Commissioned and non-commissioned officers, 105.
In the Lower or Nineteenth Battalion, nine companies. Capt. Nathaniel Manning's company, 70 privates. Capt. Joseph Robson's company, 69 privates.
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Capt. Charles Staplefort's company, 71 privates. Lieut. William Dail's company, 53 privates. Capt. Roger Jones' company, 61 privates. Capt. Levin Hubbard's company, 68 privates. Capt. Benjamin Keene's company, 62 privates. Lieut. Solomon Jones' company, 60 privates. Capt. Edward Staplefort's company, 56 privates.
Total-570.
Commissioned and non-commissioned officers, III.
In the corps, four companies:
Capt. Henry Lake's company, 69 privates.
Capt. Timothy McNamara's company, 65 privates.
Capt. John Todd's company, 52 privates. Capt. Job Slacum, Jr.'s company, 51 privates.
Total-237.
Commissioned and non-commissioned officers, 53. Total number of privates-1661.
Daniel Fallen was Major in the Corps.
HENRY HOOPER, Lieutenant, Dorset County. :
Official list of officers of Dorchester companies not here- tofore published :
CAPTAINS.
Francis Turpin,
John Maguire,
Joseph Wright, Jr.
William Scott,
John Turpin, Ebbin Newton,
William Pattison,
Samuel Keene,
John Greene, William Taylor,
Thomas Thompson,
Edward Wright.
LIEUTENANTS.
Joseph Vickers, Isaac Wright,
James Moore, Thomas Waters,
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LETTER FROM HENRY HOOPER TO THE GOVERNOR
LIEUTENANTS-Continued.
Henry Smoot, John Budd, Cyrus Bell,
Samuel Elliott, Thomas Hicks.
ENSIGNS.
Matthew Smith,
William Medford,
Charles Adams,
Nathan Williams,
Handy Handly,
William Thompson,
John Laing,
William Jones,
John Brohawn,
John Bestpitch.
In 1780 the seat of war was transferred to the southern colonies by the reinforcement of Lord Rawdon's army, with the army of Lord Cornwallis at Camden. In the American Army, the Maryland Line was there, fourteen hundred strong, including Col. Thos. Woolford, of Dorchester, and his regiment. The gallant Sumpter and Col. Woolford dar- ingly captured the army supplies of Cornwallis, taking a forty-wagon train and three hundred prisoners, only to be lost when overtaken by the British mounted infantry at Catawba Ford, on the Wateree River, where three or four hundred Americans were killed, wounded or captured. Col- onel Woolford was wounded and taken prisoner. In the battles of Camden and Catawba, the Maryland Line lost "six hundred and ninety-seven of the rank and file, and eighty non-commissioned officers." In the sunny land of Carolina, on the battlefields of Camden and Catawba, sleep some of the soldier heroes of Dorchester.
LETTER FROM HENRY HOOPER TO THE GOVERNOR.
DORCHESTER COUNTY, May 15, 1781.
Since the suspension ordered by Your Excellency and Council, of the draft of the militia in this county expired, I have made a draft in each class, being twenty-eight in num- ber, that have not furnished a recruit. This measure is thought illegal by some here, as not being made agreeable to the Act. I should therefore be glad of having Your
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Excellency's orders thereon. I received the Act of Assem- bly, with your orders thereon, for depopulating the Islands, which I apprehend cannot now be put in execution from the number of enemy's barges constantly cruising there, without the assistance of some armed vessels to cooperate with the militia. We have lately received information that the enemy are heaving up breastworks and fortifying one of the islands in Holland's Straits for the protection of the inhabitants on those islands. On Sunday night last two of the enemy's barges came about two miles up Transquaking River, took off some stock, then retreated down the river yesterday morning before the militia could overtake them. Several dwelling houses in this county have lately been burnt and the property of the inhabitants carried off by the enemy, and what greatly adds to our misfortune is that we have not a single gun to put on board a boat to take or drive them off from our coast.
I have the honor to be, sir,
Your most obed' h'ble serv't,
HENRY HOOPER.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CORNWALLIS ENTERS CHESAPEAKE BAY AND INVADES BOTH SHORES-GREAT DEMAND FOR VOLUNTEERS, ARMY SUPPLIES AND TRANSPORTS FOR WASH- INGTON'S AND LAFAYETTE'S SOLDIERS-BEEF CATTLE REQUIRED FROM DORCHESTER COUNTY-APPEAL TO GOVERNOR LEE FOR ARMS-GEN. HENRY HOOPER SENDS THE COUNTY'S QUOTA OF TROOPS TO THE ARMY- BARGES BUILT FOR DEFENCE AND PROTECTION OF COMMERCE ON CHESA- PEAKE BAY-MORE TROOPS REQUIRED AND RECRUITED FOR THE ARMY- TWO COMPANIES OF SELECT MILITIA ORGANIZED-CLOSING YEAR OF THE WAR.
ARMY SUPPLIES COLLECTED.
In the spring of 1781, when Lord Cornwallis had invaded Northeast Virginia by entering the Chesapeake Bay, the people on both "Shores" were greatly alarmed, and urgent demands for volunteers and army supplies were made to defend the State and aid Washington and Lafayette's soldiers with food and transportation. Dorchester was to furnish 400 head of cattle for the army, either to be bought or seized by authority of an Act for procuring supplies, passed June, 1780. Other counties were required to furnish cattle in like proportions, and also pork and flour. At the same time warrants were issued to Quartermaster-Gen. James Sulivane, of Dorchester County, and other quartermaster-generals, giv- ing them authority to impress all vessels suitable for trans- porting troops or military stores, with their crews, that could be found in the rivers or harbors of the Chesapeake Bay; to be sent immediately to the head of Elk River, and be held under orders from Donaldson Yeats, Deputy Quartermaster- General, to be used to convey Washington's Army to Vir- ginia by way of Chesapeake Bay.
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PATRIOTIC DORCHESTER.
(Scharf's History.)
From the beginning of the war the inhabitants of the East- ern Shore felt the greatest distress for the want of arms. The State supplied, from time to time, the arms needed for the militia when called into service; but the supply was so small that when the militia joined the main army the people at home were left without arms. Under these circumstances, Robert Goldsborough and Gustavus Scott, of Dorchester County, on the sixteenth of January, 1781, addressed the fol- lowing appeal to Governor Lee:
"In the present alarming situation of our affairs we should be wanting in attention to the inhabitants of this town and county if we did not apply in the most earnest manner to your Excellency to supply us with the means of defending ourselves from an enemy so lately and so frequently almost at our doors; a particular part of the State when invaded has the right to expect assistance from the more powerful parts of it; local circumstances render it difficult for the in- habitants of this Shore, exposed as they are to the utmost calamities of war and piracies, to expect assistance from our more powerful neighbors of the Western Shore. The greater then, unquestionable, is the need that we should have the means of defence in our own hands.
"We cannot but hope it is a fact, not within your Excel- lency's knowledge, that out of 1700 effective men in this county, not more than 150 of the number can be armed; not a single field-piece, nor ammunition sufficient for our number of arms. This State has no county in it which has mani- fested a more uniform and earnest zeal in the present just and necessary opposition than Dorset; but invasion without the power of resistance, however strong the inclination, will and really has sapped the Whigism of our common people; few even of the vulgar are so ignorant as not to know that allegiance and protection are reciprocal; they have fre-
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APPEAL TO GOVERNOR LEE
quently, in the course of the summer, been at the mercy of a cruel enemy without any other weapons to defend them- selves but those that nature gave them. When the enemy landed at Vienna (a town not twenty miles distant from this place) with two barges and thirty men, there were not a dozen effective arms in the town.
"The Lieutenant of the County will inform your Excellency of the number of arms and the quantity of ammunition necessary for his militia. We flatter ourselves your Excel- lency will use every means in your power to supply our militia with 500 effective muskets, 2 field pieces, and pow- der and ball sufficient for that number of arms. * * Provisions of no kind can be bought here on the credit of the State, and the Commissary has not one shilling of public money in his hands. * *"
As required by Act of Congress in May, 1781, to raise two battalions of militia for reinforcing the Continental Army with 1345 men, Gen. Henry Hooper sends the quota from Dorchester. He writes :
DORCHESTER COUNTY, June 28, 1781.
Sir:
I have sent fourteen drafted militia men under the care of Lieut. Hugh Maguire, procured under late Act of Assembly, to serve in the Continental Army until the 10th day of Dec. next. * * several of them have been water- men and seem very desirous to serve on board of some of our barges, particularly Peter Harrington, Job Hubbert, Roger Tregoe and Anthony Tall, Jr.
I have desired Mr. Maguire to apply to your Board to satisfy him for transporting the drafted men to Annapolis.
I have the honor to be Sir, yr very hble servt.
HENRY HOOPER.
Dorchester County, in Council.
His Excellency, the Governor.
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Names of drafted militia :
John Wheeler,
Wm. Proctor, Jr.,
Nehemiah Lingard,
Nathan Busick,
John Dicks,
Anthony Tall,
Samuel Hurst,
Roger Tregoe,
Levin Thomas,
Peter Harrington,
Ezekiel Whitcoks,
John Booth,
Job Hubbert,
Wm. Dickenson.
At this same session, an Act for defence of the Bay was also passed, that authorized the building of not over eight barges, to be manned and fitted.
On the barge "Fearnought" was part of a crew from Dor- chester County, viz: Captain, Levin Spedden; Nehemiah Beckwith, John Thomas, David Davis, James Frazier, Wm. Frazier, John Thomas, Jun., John Wheeler, William Millby, William Navy, John Frazier.
Each man who volunteered to serve on the barges were paid £3 bounty and £3 per month.
(See Md. Archives.)
BARGE FLOTILLA ON CHESAPEAKE BAY.
Extract from the journal of Commodore Grason, on a cruise in the Chesapeake, begun in July, 1781, in command of the barges "Revenge," "Terrible" and "Intrepid."
"Monday, 29, at 6, took two small schooners that had been taken by the enemy, one of which had a negro and a white man on board; the other was ran on shore on Barn Island, and the hands sent over the Bay by one Job Wilson or Williams; he carried on a Salt Works on the Island, which we broke up and took his potts away for assisting the enemy. * *"
Much more interesting matter is recorded in the journal, but not relating to Dorchester County.
As the ravages of war depleted the ranks of the American Army, frequent demands for new recruits were made by the General Assembly.
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Towards raising two battalions for the State, in July, 1781, the following named recruits were enrolled in Dorchester County :
UPPER BATTALION.
William Harrington,
Levin Collins,
Aaron Perry,
Moses Morelake,
John Huffington,
Elisha Stack,
Foster Hooper,
Andrew Kerwen,
William Pritchett, ·
David Foxwell,
John Willen,
Wm. Valient,
John Stinnett,
Elijah Lyons,
John Matkins,
Potter Shehee,
Thomas Smith,
Geo. Buly,
David Murray Stewart,
David Medess,
Philemon Timmons,
Salady Standly,
John Brily,
Frederick Johnson,
John Greenwood,
John Dean,
James Taylor,
John Hambleton,
Andrew Bramble,
John White, Amos Griffith,
William Covey.
LOWER BATTALION.
John Dobson,
Robert Burress,
William Roberts, Henry Harper,
James Driver,
Timothy Langrall,
Abel Garner, Aaron Vinson,
Absolom Goostree,
Mathew Harvey, Jacob Tucker, Richard Harrington, Levin Harrington, John Willis,
Robert Meekins, John Matkins, David Jones,
George Williams, Godfrey Sullener,
William Proctor,
David Davis,
Levin Ross,
William Harper, Richard Hayes,
John Stevens,
.
Joseph Ross,
Aaron Mitchell,
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LOWER BATTALION-Continued.
Thomas Morgan, James Busick,
Benjamin Fletcher,
Thomas Owens.
RECRUITED FOR THE CORPS.
Charles Sickle,
Robert Johnson,
David Blake,
William Murphy,
Levi Johnson,
Joseph Insley,
Charles Horner,
Levin McGraw,
Francis Insley,
Adams Foxwell,
JOHN GOLDSBOROUGH, Recruiting Officer.
July 24, 1781. (See Md. Archives.)
DORCHESTER MILITIA, SELECT COMPANIES DRAFTED.
DORCHESTER COUNTY, Aug. 21, 1781.
We have made up two companies of select Militia in this county, the inclosed are lists thereof. As they are principally draughted men and not entitled to choose their officers, I have undertaken to recommend the three first named in each list for commissioned officers; they were commissioned offi- cers in the Militia at large. Col. Dickinson's List of officers wanting with Upper Battalion is also inclosed that Commis- sions may be issued accordingly; you will be pleased to have said Commissions issued as soon as you can conveni- ently and send them forward as they are much wanting; also Commissions on Col. Jones' list lately lodged with your Board.
As we have but a small Quantity of Arms in the county I must request your Excellency will be pleased to send by the Bearer hereof Ninety-six stand of Arms and Ammunition for the Select Militia.
His Excellency The Governor in Council
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