To George Washington from the Maryland Council, 6 June 1780
From the Maryland Council
In Council Annapolis 6th June 1780
Sir.
We have the Honor to enclose your Excellency a late Resolve of the General Assembly of Maryland.1
The apparent Justice of the Claims, of the Maryland Officers, in the late Rawlings’s, and German Battalion, set forth, in their Petition, induced the Assembly to enter into this Resolve.2 The Incorporation would obviate Inconveniencies, to this State, in supplying its Officers and Men with Cloaths and other Necessaries, dispersed as they now are: yet the Expediency and Propriety of carrying the Measure into Execution, is wholly referred to your Excellency’s Consideration and Decision. We have the Honor to be with the highest Sentiments of Personal Respect and Esteem Your Excellency’s obedient Servants
Tho. Sim Lee
LS, DLC:GW; LB, MdAA: Council Letter Book, 1779–1780. GW’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman wrote under the docket of the LS: “no necessity of being done as both Corps are to be reduced.”
1. The council enclosed a copy of a resolution of the Maryland legislature of 11 April, which reads: “Resolved That the Rifle Companies raised in this State and the four Companies belonging to the German Battalion raised in this State be incorporated, if in the Opinion of the Commander in Chief, it can be done consistently with the good of the Service—and that they enjoy the same priviledges and be intitled to the same Bounties and Cloathing that the Officers and soldiers in the Line are entitled to” (DLC:GW).
2. The petition of the Maryland officers has not been identified.