In Council Annapolis 25th. May 1778.
[Extract] Sir.
. . . We are surprised that Capt. Winder1 should refuse to receive the Substitutes; it was certainly his Duty to have forwarded them; to make the best of it, we request you will send them to Cambridge, in char[g]e of some trusty Militia Officer, who must be paid for his Trouble: we shall send a Galley there in a few Days2 for some continental Tents and other Matters, and she may take the Men immediately to the Head of the Bay, which will be a great Ease to them. We request the Men may be marched to Cambridge immediately, that the Galley may not be delayed. If they get there before her they may if inconvenient to the officer you send to stay, be left in the Care of any of our Continental Officers, who may be there or if none there, in the Care of John Chalmers. We inclose you a Copy of an Act passed the last Session;3 if there should be Occasion, you are by Virtue thereof and this Order, to call out such of the Militia as you think necessary and most proper, advising us immediately of it. We are &ca.
LB, MdAA, Governor and Council Letterbook, S1075-6, 4007, p. 166, no. 235. Addressed at the foot: “Colo. George Dashiell.”
1. Capt. Levin Winder of the First Maryland Continental Regiment.
2. As seen at Council to Lt. John Hanson, 26 May, below, the Maryland Navy galley Independence was sent.
3. “A number of the Inhabitants of the Upper Part of Queen Annes County having represented their being in great Danger from Parties of Tories Commanded by Cheney Clows the said Cheney Clows and his Parties having lately committed several Roberies and taken some of the inhabitants out of their Houses and have therefore requested a small party of Militia to scout in those Parts which is thought necessary and is therefore recommended by the [County] Lieut of Queen Annes County immediately order out any Number of the Militia he may judge proper not exceeding Forty under proper Officers nor for a longer Time than one Month to serve as a scouting Party for the Protection and Defence of the inhabitants in the upper Part of Queen Annes County and the Neighbourhood thereof with Power if necessary to act in the State of Delaware” D, MdAA, Governor and Council Proceedings, 3842, S1071-23.
