Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Thomas Russell

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[No˙ 151.]

Annapolis, May 11, 1776.

SIR: You will please deliver two hundred and seventy-one quarter-barrels of powder, belonging to this Province, that arrived at Indian-River, together with seventy pounds of musket-balls, two brass blunderbusses, and twelve swords, to the officer that may be appointed to guard the same to Chestertown, in Maryland, who will deliver this letter; and any expenses you may have been at in landing or guarding the same, shall be paid on application to yours, &c.

To Mr˙ Thomas Russell.