Letter from the Baltimore Committee to the Maryland Council of Safety: Dr. Stevenson is considered an enemy to America, and it would be dangerous to trust so much powder as he claims in his hands

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In Committee, Baltimore, June 17, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Information having been given to this Committee by Mr˙Lux, that you had application by letter from Dr˙Stevenson that two casks of gunpowder were taken from him, for which he never had been paid, this Committee desire that you will please to transmit them a copy of said letter that they may have an opportunity of answering the charge. They have further to inform you that an application has been made by Dr˙Stevenson for a barrel of gunpowder, which he imported fromPhiladelphia, and was received into the publick store; but as he has neither signed the Association nor enrolment, he stands in the light of an enemy toAmerica, and therefore it would be dangerous to trust so much powder in his hands; they therefore desire your orders therein.

We are, gentlemen, your most humble servants,

SAMUEL PURVIANCE, Jun˙,Chairman. WILLIAM LUX,
J˙ GRIEST,
ANDREW BUCHANAN,
BENJAMIN NICHOLSON,
THOMAS SOLLERS,
WILLIAM AISQUITH,
THOMAS HARRISON,
DARBY LUX,
JOHN E˙ HOWARD.

To the Honourable the Council of Safety ofMaryland.