Harris, Isaac

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Harris, Isaac			Maryland	1775

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Archives of Maryland Journal of the Maryland Convention July 26 to August 14, 1775 Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 29, 1775 to July 6, 1776 "Thursday 31st August 1775 The Council met according to Adjournment Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Western Shore out of the Bills of Credit in his Hands pay unto Mr Isaac Harris or his Order four Dollars and two Thirds of a Dollar for every [good substantial proved] Musquet Barrell 3 1/2 Feet long and three [quarters of an] Inch in the Bore agreeable to the one now made and [delivered] and for a pair of brass Molds as aforesaid for every 80 Barrels which the said Harris shall deliver to the said Treasurer before the first Day of May next." Friday 23d February 1776 "...Messrs John Shaw and Archibald Chisholm agreed with the Council of Safety to stock the Gun Barrels made by Mr Isaac Harris for the use of this Province at the price the same are done in Philadelphia. Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore deliver to Messrs John Shaw & Archibald Chisholm 50 of the Gun Barrels left with him by Mr Isaac Harris to be stocked by said Shaw & Chisholm, and take their Receipt for the same. Ordered That Major Thomas Tillard deliver to Mr Isaac Harris three Barrels of Gunpowder belonging to this Province to be by him brought under a Guard to the City of Annapolis and their delivered to the Council of Safety, or to their Order, That the said Isaac Harris be empowered to hire a Cart and one or more Horses as also to employ two persons to assist him in bringing said three Barrels of Gunpowder from Pig point to Annapolis, and to be a Guard on the same. That Col. John Hall be and is hereby appointed to receive the Gunpowder from Isaac Harris, and that he take Care the same be stored in some safe place in the City of Annapolis, and that the said John Hall deliver out or cause to be delivered out to Isaac Harris so much of the said Gunpowder as may be necessary for proving the Musquets now made or making by him. That Isaac Harris call on Mr Stephen West and request him to send up to the Council of Safety by said Harris all the Gun- locks & Cutteau Knives now in his Possession heretofore agreed for by Col. Smallwood." Thursday 11th April 1776 "... Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Mr Isaac Harris all the Musquets now in the Magazine, which are not fitted with Steel Ramrods in Order that they may be fitted therewith.

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Archives of Maryland
Journal of the Maryland Convention July 26 to August 14, 1775
Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 29, 1775 to July 6, 1776

"Thursday 31st August 1775

The Council met according to Adjournment

Resolved, That the Treasurer of the Western Shore out of the Bills of Credit in his Hands pay unto Mr Isaac Harris or his Order four Dollars and two Thirds of a Dollar for every [good substantial proved] Musquet Barrell 3 1/2 Feet long and three [quarters of an] Inch in the Bore agreeable to the one now made and [delivered] and for a pair of brass Molds as aforesaid for every 80 Barrels which the said Harris shall deliver to the said Treasurer before the first Day of May next."

Friday 23d February 1776

"...Messrs John Shaw and Archibald Chisholm agreed with the Council of Safety to stock the Gun Barrels made by Mr Isaac Harris for the use of this Province at the price the same are done in Philadelphia.

Ordered That the Treasurer of the Western Shore deliver to Messrs John Shaw & Archibald Chisholm 50 of the Gun Barrels left with him by Mr Isaac Harris to be stocked by said Shaw & Chisholm, and take their Receipt for the same.

Ordered That Major Thomas Tillard deliver to Mr Isaac Harris three Barrels of Gunpowder belonging to this Province to be by him brought under a Guard to the City of Annapolis and their delivered to the Council of Safety, or to their Order, That the said Isaac Harris be empowered to hire a Cart and one or more Horses as also to employ two persons to assist him in bringing said three Barrels of Gunpowder from Pig point to Annapolis, and to be a Guard on the same. That Col. John Hall be and is hereby appointed to receive the Gunpowder from Isaac Harris, and that he take Care the same be stored in some safe place in the City of Annapolis, and that the said John Hall deliver out or cause to be delivered out to Isaac Harris so much of the said Gunpowder as may be necessary for proving the Musquets now made or making by him.

That Isaac Harris call on Mr Stephen West and request him to send up to the Council of Safety by said Harris all the Gun- locks & Cutteau Knives now in his Possession heretofore agreed for by Col. Smallwood."

Thursday 11th April 1776

"... Ordered That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Mr Isaac Harris all the Musquets now in the Magazine, which are not fitted with Steel Ramrods in Order that they may be fitted therewith.