Letter from the Baltimore Committee to the Maryland Convention

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In Committee, Baltimore, May 13, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: We recommend the Companies as below, to be formed into a Battalion, and request your honourable body to appoint Field-Officers for them:

Containing Privates.
1st. John Cockey Owings, First Lieutenant,
Richard Colegate, Second Lieutenant,
Joshua Cockey of Edward, Ensign.

Containing 75 Privates.
2d. Samuel Owings of Samuel, Captain,
Alexander Wells, First Lieutenant,
Thomas Owings, Second Lieutenant,
David Sutherland, Ensign.

Containing 58 Privates.
3d. Richard Owings, of Samuel, Captain,
Joshua Porter, First Lieutenant,
Benjamin Lawrence, Second Lieut.
James Barnes, Ensign.

Containing 77 Privates.
4th. Thomas Phillips, Captain,
Joshua Dorsey, First Lieutenant,
John Chapman, Second Lieutenant,
Richard Shipley, Ensign.

Containing 79 Privates.
5th. Charles Carnan, Captain,
William Hudson, First Lieutenant,
Richard Marsh, Second Lieutenant,
Thomas Doyle, Ensign.

Containing 76 Privates.
6th. Nathaniel Stinchcomb, Captain,
Joseph Gist, First Lieutenant,
John Worthington Dorsey, Sec˙ Lieut.
Joshua Owings of John, Ensign.

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Containing 55 Privates.
7th. Mordecai Hammond, Captain,
Aquila Hooper, First Lieutenant,
Richard Davis, Second Lieutenant,
Edward Parish of Edward, Ensign.

Containing 75 Privates.
8th. Isaac Hammond, Captain,
Christopher Owings, First Lieutenant,
Samuel Merryman, Jun˙, Second Lieut,
William Chinoweth, Ensign.

We also request you to grant commissions to the within-named gentlemen, except to Captain Benjamin Nicholson' s company, the officers of which have already received commissions.

We are, with respect, gentlemen, your most obedient servants,

S˙ PURVIANCE, Jun˙, Chair.
WILLIAM AISQUITH, THOMAS HARRISON,
JOHN BOYD,
J˙ GRIEST,
THOMAS GIST,
THOMAS RUTTER,
ANDREW BUCHANAN,
THOMAS SOLLERS,
JAMES GITTINGS,
JOHN MERRYMAN, Jun˙,
JOHN E˙ HOWARD,
WILLIAM WILKINSON,
JAMES CALHOUN.
CHARLES RIDGELY of Wm˙,

To the Honourable Provincial Convention of Maryland.