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In Council of Safety, November 21st, 1776.
SIR: Your favour of the 15th, by express, we only received this forenoon, and immediately sent off a fresh express to Virginia.
Despatches have been sent to the Militia officers throughout this State to hold their different corps in readiness to march upon the shortest notice.
It gives us concern to find, from information just now received from Dorset and Caroline Counties, on the East Shores, that there are likely to be disturbances in those
For, and on behalf of the Council, I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient, humhle servant,
DAN˙ OF S˙ THO' S JENIFER, President.
Maryland Council of Safety to the President of Congress
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Counties, for want of salt, it is said, of a serious nature. The progress the disaffected have made we have not time to transmit by this opportunity without detaining your messenger, but we shall send duplicates of the information we received to our Delegates by to-morrow' s post, who probably will arrive in Philadelphia almost as soon as this bearer.