Letter from the Maryland Council

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[No˙ 152.]

Annapolis, May 11, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: About two hundred and seventy-one quarter-barrels of gunpowder, belonging to this Province, have arrived at Indian-River, in Sussex County, and is now, we are informed, in the custody or possession of Colonel John Dagworthy. We request you would hire wagons to convey the same from thence to Chestertown, there to wait the further orders of this Board. A guard will be appointed by the Captain of the Independent Company in your County, to whom we have written on the occasion.

We are, &c.

To the Committee of Observation for Kent County.

P˙ S. There are two brass blunderbusses, twelve swords, and about seventy pounds of musket-balls, which are also to be brought with the powder.