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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.
Containing 75 Privates.
Containing 58 Privates.
Containing 77 Privates.
Containing 79 Privates.
Containing 76 Privates.
Containing 55 Privates.
Containing 75 Privates.
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.
To the Honourable Provincial Convention of Maryland.
Letter from the Baltimore Committee to the Maryland Convention
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1st. John Cockey Owings, First Lieutenant,
Richard Colegate, Second Lieutenant,
Joshua Cockey of Edward, Ensign.
2d. Samuel Owings of Samuel, Captain,
Alexander Wells, First Lieutenant,
Thomas Owings, Second Lieutenant,
David Sutherland, Ensign.
3d. Richard Owings, of Samuel, Captain,
Joshua Porter, First Lieutenant,
Benjamin Lawrence, Second Lieut.
James Barnes, Ensign.
4th. Thomas Phillips, Captain,
Joshua Dorsey, First Lieutenant,
John Chapman, Second Lieutenant,
Richard Shipley, Ensign.
5th. Charles Carnan, Captain,
William Hudson, First Lieutenant,
Richard Marsh, Second Lieutenant,
Thomas Doyle, Ensign.
6th. Nathaniel Stinchcomb, Captain,
Joseph Gist, First Lieutenant,
John Worthington Dorsey, Sec˙ Lieut.
Joshua Owings of John, Ensign.
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7th. Mordecai Hammond, Captain,
Aquila Hooper, First Lieutenant,
Richard Davis, Second Lieutenant,
Edward Parish of Edward, Ensign.
8th. Isaac Hammond, Captain,
Christopher Owings, First Lieutenant,
Samuel Merryman, Jun˙, Second Lieut,
William Chinoweth, Ensign.
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˙,