[Baltimore 16 April, 1775]
[Extract]
We now request as yr Gunsmith is making ten Musketts by my G.W. or[der] that you desire him to make the Bayonates the same as the Kings Troops. We also request that he will put good Locks on them & also that he may have them hear by the time agreed on. Mr Thos Jones Requests yr getting him a Gun made the same size of the ten he is now making the Bayonett to be the same as the one made for G.W. . . . there is an Acct that the Parliament will enforce the acts & that there are more troops & Men of War Coming out
1. Woolsey and Salmon Letter Book, LC.