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Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Colonel Smallwood, directing him to arrest Alexander Ross

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MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO COLONEL SMALLWOOD.

[No˙ 118.]
Annapolis, April 14, 1776.

SIR: You are hereby requested to send a commissioned officer to apprehend Alexander Ross, of this Province, on suspicion of his having been instrumental in communicating intelligence to Lord Dunmore and other persons inimical to this Province and to the cause of America, and to bring him, with all convenient speed, before the Council of Safety. The officer you send will probably find him in the neighbourhood of Queenstown; in Queen Anne' s County; and for so doing this shall be your justification.

Witness our hands, this 14th day of April, Anno Domini 1776.

To Colonel William Smallwood.

N˙ B. The officer is to command what assistance he may want after he gets to the Eastern-Shore.

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Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Colonel Smallwood, directing him to arrest Alexander Ross

Resource Type

text

Genre/Form

documents (object genre)

Date Created

1776-04-14

Presentation Location

Annapolis, Maryland, North America

Subject

Key people, events, and institutions: meetings, provincial conventions and assemblies
Loyalist, British resistance and ideology: opposition to Loyalists
Military action: prisoners

Document ID

S4-V5-P01-sp15-D0022

Series

S4

Volume

S4-V5

Part

S4-V5-P01

Sub-Part

S4-V5-P01-sp15

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