Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Gunby

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No˙ 49.

Annapolis, March 10, 1776.

SIR: We approve of your conduct in providing houses, bedding, fuel, and utensils for your company, and enclose an order on the Treasurer of the Eastern Shore, in your favour, for one hundred and fifty pounds, to disburse the expenses you have incurred in these matters; and subsisting your recruits. If that is not sufficient, you shall be provided with a further sum.

We are not yet supplied with arms, and therefore cannot now furnish you; but will as soon as we are able. By the enclosed you will observe your company is to be stationed at Princess Anne, agreeable to the recommendation of the Committee of Observation of your County, for which we thank them.

We are, &c.

To Captain John Gunby.