Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Tillard

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[No˙ 124.] Annapolis, August 7, 1776.

SIR: We are informed by Mr˙ Chase, that the privates of your company are very uneasy on account of their not being taken into barracks and provided with subsistence. By the resolves of Congress, the Militia of the Flying Camp are not to be allowed any pay or rations until they are properly armed and accoutred, and march to the northward; and as our Convention did not give any particular directions to the Council of Safety about them, we have not thought it proper to order them to be taken into barracks or subsisted; however, as your company may be very serviceable here, provided they will assist in working on the fortifications in and about this city, which we presume they will not object to, we will take them into barracks and give them all the assistance we can in getting arms. We are, &c.

To Captain Edward Tillard.