LETTER 1

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TRANSCRIPTION OF APRIL 26, 1813 LETTER
to Br.Gen. Benjamin Chambers, Part 1 and Part 2

In Council Annapolis April 26 1813

Sir,
We have received your letter of the nineteenth instant. There are neither pistols nor swords in the Armory. We will endeavor in some way to send you Ball for your field piece. We have at the request of several officers of Kent County forwarded a considerable number of Muskets with cartridges and so forth. In addition to these a few might be had from Easton. It is hoped that a proper distribution of the arms sent will be made, so as to furnish each part of the County exposed to depredation with the means of repelling any attack.

It would be difficult to forward to you any ammunition unless it can be had at Easton. We shall give an order for that purpose, and in case the supply there will not warrant a compliance with it, some careful and judicious person must be appointed to purchase ammunition as well as provisions for the militia when called into actual service of the expenditures correct accounts with the necessary vouchers must be kept and every precaution used to prevent any waste.

Orders have lately been given for two hundred stand of arms for the use of the militia of Queen Anne’s County. We have called a meeting of the Legislature on the third Monday of May when no doubt every provision will be made for the militia when in service.

In haste. We are with Respect
Levin Winder

The supply of ammunition at Easton being so
small we have concluded not to order from that place.
Brigadier General Chambers