Talbot County (Maryland) Committee

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March 21, 1775.

A meeting of the Committee of Observation for Talbot County being requested by Mr. Charles Crookshanks, on Tuesday, the 21st of March, 1775, the following gentlemen did accordingly meet at Mr.Brascup' s Tavern, viz:

James Lloyd Chamberlaine, Esq., Chairman, James Hindman, Dr. Moses Allen, John Stevens, John Cochran, Nathaniel Cooper, John Gibson, Jacob Hindman, Francis Baker, William Hindman, Robert Lloyd Nicols, Samuel Thomas, Thomas Ray, Thomas Martin, Jun., Samuel Sharp, Dr. John Troup.

Mr. Crookshanks thereupon made the following Report: That the Ship Baltimore, James Longmuir, consigned to himself by Messrs. Spiers, French & Co., had arrived the evening before, with two bales of Goods on board, which, as would appear by letters he was ready to produce from the said gentlemen, had been shipped at Glasgow, November 10th, 1774, and were part of a cargo intended to have been sent by a former Ship; that the said Longmuir came by the way of Rotterdam, and had been there detained by the ice, which had protracted his voyage. The Committee, upon examination, being satisfied of the truth of the above report, were of opinion that no imputation ought to be thrown upon the said Company, of an intention to contravene the Non-Importation Agreement entered into by the Colonies, as it was not possible for them to receive an account of the proceedings of the Continental Congress, at the time of shipping the said Goods; and as Mr.Crookshanks voluntarily proposed, and solemnly plighted his honour, that the said bales should not be landed, but sent back in the same bottom, the Committee were much pleased with his readiness to comply with the Resolution of the Continental Congress, accepted the proposal, and

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resolved unanimously that the said Goods be sent back to Glasgow in the same Ship without landing.

CHARLES TROUPE, Clerk pro tem.