The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-07-07
Major John Archer, chair

FIREARMS cOlleCteu from nOn-enrOllCT5
ordered to be inspected.
Met July 1st, 1716.-Present ten mem
bers; Amos Garrett in the chair
"ResOl0ed, That when any person has
been fined, and it has been remittcd, he
pay the collector u per cent. on the sum
fined for his trouble"
ga 5s. Cd. to be allowed for a gun and
bayonet, twenty shillings for a gun bar
rel"
Met in Special Committee, July 11th
177G.-Prescnt twelve members. Com
mittee of four appointed to inspect
guns
"Sirs: Agreeably to the resolves of the
late convention, empowering the commit
tee of this county to appoint the officers OF
Rifle Company to DO raised within this
county, we have chosen and do recon-.
mend the following gentlemen as worthy
Of commissions, to wit Alex. Lawson
Smith, captain; James White Hall, 1st
lieutenant; VIM Bradford, Jr., Cd lieu
tenant; Josas Hall, Sd lieutenant; whose
conduct, we tlatter ourselves, will do hon
or to themselves, and justify the choice OF
this committee"
: Met August 5th, 177G.-Prcsent, eight
members.
"Resolred, That the constable take the
number of the whites and blacks of both
sexes in this county, agrceably to resolve
of the Congress and Council of Safety of
Maryland"
"Mr. Robert Stokes presents Fuse, for
which this committee agree TO pay him
four pounds ten shillings, and deliver
her (O to Mr.. John Beaie Hall, of Capt.
Paca's company" The clerk was proba.
bly, thinking of his "Flame."l
Met August 10th, 177G.-Present, nine
members; Amos Garrett, chairman.
"By virtue of al order from Council of
Safety, sent by wagon to Baltimore Town
sixty-two muskets and sixty-seven car
touche boxes, under care of Serg't VIM.
Cooper, of Capt. Bussey's company.
Five persons appointed to ride through
the county and purchase guns and blankets,
agreeably to the request Of the Council of
Safety.
Wrote to Council OF Safety for $500 to
buy guns and blankets.
Met August 9th, 177G--Prcscnt,
twelve members Amos Garrett in the
chair.
Received $500 from Council of Safety
Bought ia pounds Of birthstone for ca
Is. Cd.
Met September I'd, 177G.- Present,
nine members; Amos Garrett in the
chair.
Sent to Head of Elk 1GG blankets for
Col. Halls battalion, &c.
Met Sept. 18th, 177G.-Prcscnt nine
members; Amos Garrett, chairman. Ac-
counts settled up.
Ordered that an advertisement be set
up, that this committee is dissolved. The
time for which this committee was elected
being expired, they now dissolve them
selves.
At an election for Hartford county, held
at Hartford Town, on the 21th of Novem-
Der, l77G, the following were elected
agreeably TO IL resolve of the late conven,
ton, a Committee of Observation for the
said county; Mcssrs. Thomas Johnson,
George Patterson, Amos Garrett, Samuel
Ashmead, VIM. Webb, Col. Aquila Hall,
Alexander Cowan, John love, Benz. Brad
ford Norris, James McComas, Henry Will
son, Jr., Abraham Whitaker, John Archer,
berry Dorsey, James Clendcnnin and Ig-
natius Wheeler, il.
On the I'd day Of December the commit
tee met. Present ten members; Amos
Garrett in the chair.
The committee proceeded to choose
committee Of license, when the following
gentlemen were elected by ballot Messrs.
Amos Garrett, George Patterson, Thomas
johnson, James McComas, Samuel Ash
mead, VIM. Smithson and Benz. Bradford
Norris.
1.-THE time for which the old committee
of license had been elected had lately ex-
pired.
The newly elected committee of obscr-
walton held eleven meetings from the first
Monday in January, 1777, to the 81 day
of the following March. At these meet
ings filly-one permits were granted indi-
viduals to "warrant, prosecute and bring
action"
February nth, TIT, the committee re-
ceived ESQ from the Council of Safety
Received of Captain Samuel Smith and
James May, 80 guns and bayoncts.
Met March Sd, 1777.-A committee was
appointed "to adjust the donation to the
poor of Boston, and to return the money
to the subscribers i'll proportion to their
donations"
April 21st, 1777.-Mr. George Young,
who was appointed to guard Il wagon to
South Carolina, was lent two muskets,
bayonets, cartouchc boxes and haversacks.
A committee was appointed "to prepare
the accounts of this committee, to settle
with the board of claims. Also to settle
all other accounts relative to this commit
tee."
This is the last meeting recorded in
these papers. 1t may be that there was no
further necessity for its existence, and that
it was, for this reason, dissolved. On the
other hand, it may, for all the evidence we
have to the contrary, have continued in
existence, and its records may have been
lost.
The next paper of interest is "A List of
Non-Associators and Non Enrollers in
Hartford county, to the 10th of Sept, 1775."
1t embraces 240 names, with the amount
of the fine attached to each. These fines
aggregate GS14 los. and of this amount
there was up to the 10th Of September,
ITS, $3.50 los. collected, and E464 still
due.
The next paper is "a List Of the Inhab-
itants of Hartford county," taken in 177j,
as ordered by the committee. See, as
hereinbefore given, the proceedings on the
9th of August of that year, 1t is as fol-
lows:
Whites. Blacks.
Spesutic Lower Hundred 700 $50
do Upper do 767 $40
Hartford Lower do 5l5 352
do Upper do 54S 1914
Susquehanna do 1900 2S1
Bush River Lower do G59 275
do Upper do 623 n
Deer Creek Lower do 400 374
do Upper do $50 1879
Eden do zoos 1913
Broad Creek do 31S "a
GunnOVlpr InWpI do I,S3 All