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title:“George Mason and John Dalton to the Maryland Council of Safety”
authors:George Mason, John Dalton
date written:1776-1-31
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Mason, George and John Dalton. "Letter to the Maryland Council of Safety." The Papers of George Mason. Vol. 1. Ed. Bernard Bailyn and James Morton Smith. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1970. 262. Print.
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source:		 File Copy, Maryland Hall of Records Commission, Annapolis, Md.

George Mason and John Dalton to the Maryland Council of Safety (January 31, 1776)

Fairfax County Jany 31st. 1776.
SIR.
Being empowered & directed, by the Committee of Safety for this Colony, to build two row gallies, one to carry a 24, & the other an 18 pounder, & provide three arm'd cutters for the protection of Potomac River, we think it proper to inform your board that this measure will be carryed into execution with all possible expedition, & that we hope to have your co-operation, in adopting some similar plan, for the same purpose, we beg the favour of an answer by the first opportunity; and am, with the greatest respect, Sir Yr. most obdt. Hble Serts.
G. MASON.
JOHN DALTON

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