Return of Arms taken from persons who have refused to enrol as Militia Committee to fit out the Schooner Resolution as a tender to the Ship Defence, on the present emergency

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At a meeting of the Committee, Thursday, March 8, 1766:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, William Lux, Deputy-Chairman, Andrew Buchanan, William Buchanan, Thomas Harrison, John Moale, John Boyd, John Smith, Jeremiah T˙ Chase, A˙ Britton, William Aisquith.

The Committee agreed with Andrew Stigar and Engleheart Yeiser to furnish Rations for the Militia, consisting of nine pounds Bread, and eight pounds Beef or six pounds Pork, per week, with Salt, and the meat to be boiled, at one Shilling per Ration.

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Captain Henry Shaaf is appointed to have the Cannon at the Hill removed to Fell' s Point immediately.

Ordered, That Mr˙ David McLure deliver to Captain William Galbraith twenty pounds of Gunpowder, and Mr˙ H˙ Courtenay forty pounds Lead.

Ordered, That Mr˙ William Spear deliver Sergeant William Cornwall, of Captain Nathaniel Smith' s Company, two quarter-barrels of Gunpowder, for the use of the Troops.

Ordered, That Mr˙ James Calhoun, or Mr˙ David McLure, deliver to Mr˙ J˙ Hall half a pound of Powder and two pounds of Lead.

A Certificate was granted to William Lawrence, master of the Sloop Otwell, that he had landed three hundred and twenty bushels of Corn, and six barrels of Pork, shipped by the Honourable Robert Carter, in Westmorland County, Virginia.

The Independent Company having received orders from the Committee to disarm such persons as have refused to enroll as Militia, returned the following Arms, which were valued as follows:

No˙ 1, a Fusee, the property of Melchior Keener, valued at one Pound ten Shillings, delivered to John Hughes; No˙ 2, a Fusee, the property of Thomas Brereton, valued at two Pounds five Shillings, delivered to John Caldwell; No˙ 3, a Fusee, the property of William Smith, (Ropemaker,) valued at one Pound ten Shillings; No˙ 4, a Fusee, valued at one Pound; No˙ 5, a Fusee, valued at one Pound; No˙ 6, a Fusee, valued at fifteen Shillings; No˙ 7, a Fusee, valued at fifteen Shillings; No˙ 8, a Fowling-Piece, the property of Alexander Lawson, valued at three Pounds ten Shillings, delivered to J˙ Sterrett; No˙ 9, a Musket, the property of John Clansey, valued at one Pound ten Shillings, delivered to G˙ Vaughan; No˙ 3, a brass Blunderbuss, the property of Doctor John Stevenson, valued at three Pounds, and No˙ 1, a brass Blunderbuss, the property of John Ashburner, valued at two Pounds ten Shillings, delivered on board the Defence.

Resolved, That the Schooner Resolution be fitted out as a Tender for the Ship Defence, on the present emergency; and that Captain William Wand be Captain, Captain Thomas Moore First Lieutenant, Captain George Wise Second Lieutenant, and Captain William Paddison Master.

Messrs˙ Robert Purviance, George Woolsey, and David Stewart, be directed to carry this Resolve into immediate execution.

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.