Excerpt from The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Vol. 2: 1737-1832; With His Correspondence and Public Papers Council of the State of Maryland be requested imme diately to embody three hundred militia of the East ern Shore, under active, spirited officers, and order them to march with two field pieces, and a proper number of artillerists into Delaware, there to execute such orders as they may receive from a committee of Congress appointed for that purpose. And a copy of Governor Smallwood's letter was to be transmitted to the Governor and Council of Maryland.' Charles Carroll's letter to Governor Johnson, of April 21512, is in reference to this matter, an insurrection of Tories on the neck of land betwixt Delaware and Chesa peake Bay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.