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- GLC#
- GLC00218.02-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 02 May 1781
- Author/Creator
- Tilghman, William, 1756-1827
- Title
- [Subscription for the barge experiment]
- Place Written
- Talbot County, Maryland
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 31.6 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Also signed by Thomas Ray, Robert Pickering, W. Dawson, James Benson, Richard Parrott, Joseph Hartley, W. Gibson, [?] Gibson, B. Skinner, Hugh Rice, and William Tilghman. Document claims the British have fitted a number of small vessels that have been raiding and plundering the coast of Maryland. Says that the state treasury is overburdened and that the 11 signers will support and maintain a barge and a ship to protect their shores between Kent Point and Tilghman's Island for two months. Want ships manned by 20 men exclusive of officers. Will pay the charges and expenses in proportion to the assessment of their property.
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