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SMALLWOOD SUPPRESSING TORYISM. 301
" As Brigadier General Hooper has already marched into Somerset and Worcester
counties, we recommend to Col. Gist to call on, or send an express to him on his way
down to give intelligence; and if he should understand that the tories are entirely dispersed, and their ringleaders secured, he is to direct the militia of this State to return to
their respective homes, the matrosses to their stations at Annapolis and Baltimore Town,
and dismiss the regulars from the present service.
" He is to give intelligence of his proceedings from time to time to the Executive body
of this State.
" That Col. Gist, or the Commanding officer in Somerset or Worcester Counties, hereafter take the directions of this State as to the disposition of the arms that may be delivered
up by the insurgents in those counties."
General Smaliwood hereupon ordered the second Virginia regiment, which
was then passing through Baltimore, to join Washington, and the continental
regular companies of Captains Deane and Goodman, and Captain Sterrett's
independent company of Baltimore merchants, to embark at Fell's Point,
Baltimore, under the command of Colonel Gist, for the scene of operations.
He joined this force at Annapolis, and added to it the matrosses and the
independent company.
• On the 19th of February, General Smaliwood and hisx force arrived at
Salisbury, and immediately proceeded to Princess Anne, where he arrived on
the 23d. In his report of operations to the president of the senate, dated
March 3d, General Smaliwood says: "At those posts and on our march we
found the people generally quiet and peaceable, though much alarmed, particularly such who were under guard upon accusations. They seemed
disposed to accept the terms offered in the proclamation, which induced
me to discharge all the militia and procure twenty-eight horsemen, who
have rendered essential service upon detached duty, under regular
officers, having all the suspected persons under guard except Callallo and
Moore, after whom I have had three parties for some time out, and directed
Captain Campbell to cruise in the sound, hang out British colors, and hover
about the mouth of the rivers in order to decoy and intercept them, should an
escape be attempted that way."1
In another letter to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, president of the Council
of Safety, dated Snow Hill, March 14th, General Smaliwood said that he was
satisfied the proclamation would not have the desired effect, nor would any
measures avail unless similar ones were adopted in Delaware.
" Such was the confidence of the Loyalists in each other from their communication
and vicinity, and from their particular situation and intercourse with the British Navy,
that unless this intercourse and the principle and spirit of disaffection can generally be
removed, the purpose of any particular post will not be effected. I am daily discovering
Captain James Campbell commanded the and sent to Cambridge jail, in Dorchester county,
Maryland naval forces in the neighborhood of by the local militia, under the command of Brig-
Hooper's Straits and Tangier Sound. Before adier-General Hooper, aided by Colonel Southey
Smaliwood arrived with his forces, it seems that Simpson's (Virginia) battalion, which crossed the
the tories were subdued, a large number arrested State line from Accomac county.
| Title | History of Maryland - 2 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000334 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | SMALLWOOD SUPPRESSING TORYISM. 301 " As Brigadier General Hooper has already marched into Somerset and Worcester counties, we recommend to Col. Gist to call on, or send an express to him on his way down to give intelligence; and if he should understand that the tories are entirely dispersed, and their ringleaders secured, he is to direct the militia of this State to return to their respective homes, the matrosses to their stations at Annapolis and Baltimore Town, and dismiss the regulars from the present service. " He is to give intelligence of his proceedings from time to time to the Executive body of this State. " That Col. Gist, or the Commanding officer in Somerset or Worcester Counties, hereafter take the directions of this State as to the disposition of the arms that may be delivered up by the insurgents in those counties." General Smaliwood hereupon ordered the second Virginia regiment, which was then passing through Baltimore, to join Washington, and the continental regular companies of Captains Deane and Goodman, and Captain Sterrett's independent company of Baltimore merchants, to embark at Fell's Point, Baltimore, under the command of Colonel Gist, for the scene of operations. He joined this force at Annapolis, and added to it the matrosses and the independent company. • On the 19th of February, General Smaliwood and hisx force arrived at Salisbury, and immediately proceeded to Princess Anne, where he arrived on the 23d. In his report of operations to the president of the senate, dated March 3d, General Smaliwood says: "At those posts and on our march we found the people generally quiet and peaceable, though much alarmed, particularly such who were under guard upon accusations. They seemed disposed to accept the terms offered in the proclamation, which induced me to discharge all the militia and procure twenty-eight horsemen, who have rendered essential service upon detached duty, under regular officers, having all the suspected persons under guard except Callallo and Moore, after whom I have had three parties for some time out, and directed Captain Campbell to cruise in the sound, hang out British colors, and hover about the mouth of the rivers in order to decoy and intercept them, should an escape be attempted that way."1 In another letter to Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, president of the Council of Safety, dated Snow Hill, March 14th, General Smaliwood said that he was satisfied the proclamation would not have the desired effect, nor would any measures avail unless similar ones were adopted in Delaware. " Such was the confidence of the Loyalists in each other from their communication and vicinity, and from their particular situation and intercourse with the British Navy, that unless this intercourse and the principle and spirit of disaffection can generally be removed, the purpose of any particular post will not be effected. I am daily discovering Captain James Campbell commanded the and sent to Cambridge jail, in Dorchester county, Maryland naval forces in the neighborhood of by the local militia, under the command of Brig- Hooper's Straits and Tangier Sound. Before adier-General Hooper, aided by Colonel Southey Smaliwood arrived with his forces, it seems that Simpson's (Virginia) battalion, which crossed the the tories were subdued, a large number arrested State line from Accomac county. |
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