Letter from J. Hall to the Maryland Council of Safety

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Anne Arundel County, May 31, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: We take the liberty of informing you that the Severn Battalion is, from the local situation of the country, greatly exposed to the depredations and attacks of our cruel and inveterate enemies; and as we may daily expect them, we request that you will be pleased to furnish the said battalion with two hundred cartouch-boxes, with twenty-three rounds of powder and ball to each, and also two hundred gun-flints. We also inform your Honours, that we will be responsible for the above, unless lost by unavoidable accident, and will return the same to the next Convention, if they will not pay for the same.

We are, gentlemen, in expectation of the above reasonable

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To the Honourable the Council of Safety.

P˙ S. As an additional reason for the above application, it is to be considered that the magazine is in the very heart of the battalion; and the cartouch-boxes may be lodged in the magazine, subject to the order of the Colonel or Lieutenant-Colonel in case of an alarm.

J˙ HALL.