A Narrative of Events Which Occurred in Baltimore Town During the Revolutionary
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Plunket was an active partizan officer, and had been in several battles. He was by birth an Irish gentlemen, and the elder brother of the present Lord Plunket, late the chancellor of Ireland. He was the person employed by the committee of 1776, to wait on congress, to receive from them the instruction that might be given respecting the seizure of the person of Governor Eden. Mr. Robert Purviance 'was, with his brother Mr. Samuel Purviance, appointed by congress, as an agent in the management of... such concerns as were entrusted to them by their legislation. These were of a most various and multiplied character, and demanded the whole time and labor of those who had charge of them. 106 A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS, &c. On the ajoptlon of the constitution of the United States, when the new government went into operation, General Washington appointed Mr. Purviance tlie naval officer of the port of Baltimore, and on the death of General Williams, who had been at the same time appointed the collector, he made him the collector, which office he held until his death, in October, 1806.
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