Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Daniel Bowly

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No˙ 58.

Annapolis, March 14, 1776.

SIR: We have given the bearer hereof (Mr˙ William Houston) an order on Captain Tibbett for two thousand pounds powder and all the small-arms, with the accoutrements thereto belonging, that have been imported for this Province, in the Brig Wild Duck, which we desire you will have complied with; and any assistance Mr˙ Houston may want you will please to give him. In a few days you will have our full directions respecting the other goods imported for the Province in the said brig. In the mean time we would have you purchase, for account of the Province, all the private adventures of powder imported in the said vessel, at such price as our Delegates in Congress may advise, whom we desire you will consult thereon; and send the same to Baltimore Town, in the safest and most expeditious manner you can.

We are, &c.

To Mr˙ Daniel Bowley, Philadelphia.