ALS, DLC:GW.

The Maryland Council again wrote GW on 1 April. The letter, in the hand of Gov. Thomas Sim Lee, reads: “Doctor Gustavus Brown is recommended by this Board to his Excellency General Washington or the commanding Officer at Elizabeth Town for his Licence to go into the City of New York, for the purpose of obtaining a Passage to Great Britain, and, under the peculiar Circumstances of his Case, to return again to this State, agreeably to a Resolve of the House of Delegates of this Date” (ALS, DLC:GW). The Maryland House of Delegates had read and granted a petition on the same date from “Dr. Gustavus Brown, of St. Mary’s county, praying permission to go from hence to England, either by the way of New-York, the West-Indies, or Holland, with leave to return again to this state” (Md. House Proc., 1 Nov. 1779–5 July 1780 description begins Votes and Proceedings of the House of Delegates [1 Nov. 1779–5 July 1780]. [Annapolis, 1780; see Evans, American Bibliography, no. 16831]. description ends , 100–101).

Gustavus Brown (1744–1801), born near Edinburgh, Scotland, received his medical degree in 1770 after seven years of study at Edinburgh University. He soon after settled in St. Mary’s County, Md., married a wealthy widow, and practiced medicine until his death. For further details, see Kelly and Burrage, American Medical Biographies description begins Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage. American Medical Biographies. Baltimore, 1920. description ends , 152–53.

Lee again wrote GW on behalf of the Maryland Council on 12 April: “Archibald Hadow is recommended by this Board to His Excellency General Washington or the Commanding Officer at Elizabeth Town for his Licence to go into the City of New York for the Purpose of obtaining a Passage to Great Britain” (LS, DLC:GW). On the same day, Lee wrote GW seeking similar permission for “John Heugh, son of Andrew,” to sail to Great Britain (LS, DLC:GW). The council acted in response to resolutions passed in the Maryland House of Delegates on the same date after considering petitions from Hadow and “Andrew Heugh, of Montgomery county” (Md. House Proc., 1 Nov. 1779–5 July 1780, 114).

The Archibald Hadow recommended by the Maryland Council for passage to Great Britain may have been Archibald Isabell Hadow (1759–1783). He was born in Scotland and died in Baltimore.

John Heugh (1765–1822), also born in Scotland, worked as a property manager in Washington, D.C., and Maryland for at least two decades prior to his death.

GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison wrote Brig. Gen. William Maxwell or the officer commanding at Elizabeth, N.J., from headquarters on 20 May 1780: “The State of Maryland having given Mr Robert Mundell—Doctor Gustavus Brown—Mr Archibald Hadow and Mr John Heugh permission to go into New York for the purpose of obtaining a passage to Great Britain—and recommended them to His Excellency, the Commander in Chief that they might obtain a flag for going into New York—I am to acquaint You that it is the General’s desire that You furnish these Gentlemen with One” (DLC:GW).

For other men, women, and children recommended to GW between 11 March and 7 Nov. for passage to New York City and travel to Ireland or Great Britain, see Md. Archives, 43:106, 123, 137, 142, 170, 172, 184, 186, 239, 287, 304, 350, 352; see also William Fitzhugh to GW, 23 April, and GW to Jedediah Huntington, 10 May. Specific reasons for these departures from Maryland have not been identified. Education, family matters, or difficult circumstances may have been motivations.