Sir I have communicated your Letter to the eighth Battallion who are much pleased that there Conduct on the late Alarm occasioned by the Otter has met with the Approbation of so truly respectable a Body as the Committee of Baltimore County.
That Battallion Sir esteem it but their Duty to march to the Assistance of any part of this Province when attacked or in Danger of it ー But they march with greater Alacrity to your Assistance from the pleasing Memory of former Connections and a Sense of the Value and Importance of Baltimore Town to the Province in General.
You may from the known and firm Attachment of the Battallion to the Cause of Liberty rest assured that You will most certainly receive their Succour to repell all hostile Attempts on it I am Sir [&c.]
Joppa April 6th 1776
Benjamin Rumsey
1. Purviance Papers, MdHS.