Petition of James Clarke and Others

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To the honourable the Council of Safety of MARYLAND: The Memorial of JAMES CLARKE, ROBERT CHRISTIE, JUN˙, MELCHIOR KEENER, ROBERT CHRISTIE, and OLIVER WHITE, and ROBERT JOHNSTON, showeth:

That early in the month of March your memorialists' vessels were sunk at Whetstone Point, for the purpose of preventing any of the British ships-of-war from coming up to Baltimore-Town. That agreeable to a resolve of Convention, they have already been allowed sums of money for the damage the vessels sustained by being sunk, but that your memorialists have never received any satisfaction for the time their vessels were employed in that service, which was about three and one half months. As that matter is referred to the Council of Safety, we would pray that a day may be fixed for our attendance at Annapolis, and that the bearer may be informed what voucher will be necessary to lay before your honourable Board. And your memorialists shall ever pray.

JAMES CLARKE,
Robert Christie, JUN˙,
Robert Christie,
Oliver White,
Melchior Keener,
Robert Johnston.

October 10, 1776.