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sir We have given the Bearer hereof Mr William Houston an Order on Captn Tibbett for 2000w Powder and all the small Arms with the Accoutrements thereto belonging, that have been imported for this Province in the Brig Wild-Dick which we desire you will have complied with, and any Assistance that Mr Houston may want, you'll please to give him ー in a few Days you will have our full Directions respecting the other Goods imported for the Province in the said Brig-in the mean Time we would have you purchase for Acct of the Province all the private Adventures of Powder imported in the said Vessel at such Price, as our Delegates in Congress may advise, whom we desire you will consult thereon, and send the same to Baltimore Town in the safest and most expeditious Manner you can. 2
[Annapolis] March 14th 1776.
1. Council of Safety Minutes, No. 1, Md. Arch.
2. Ibid., on March 15 the Council wrote the Maryland delegates in the Continental Congress that Bowley had been requested to purchase the powder "at such Price, as you may advise-."
