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MICHIGAN .
ERSITY
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THE
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SCTENTIA
1817
ARIES
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1988 )
MINUTES
OF THE
SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
PENNSYLVANIA,
FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE TERMINATION OF THE REVOLUTION.
PUBLISHED BY THE STATE.
MICHIGAN :
VOL. XI.
CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY FROM NO- VEMBER 13TH, 1776, TO 17TH OF MARCH, 1777; TOGETHER WITH A MEMORANDUM FROM DECEMBER 31st, 1776, TO MARCH 17TH, 1777; ALSO THE MINUTES OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL FROM MARCH 4TH, 1777, TO MAY 20TH, 1779, BOTH DAYS INCLUDED.
HARRISBURG :
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PRINTED BY THEO. FENN & CO. 1852.
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CONTENTS.
A.
Acr for the better supply of the army of Pennsylvania, 711. .
Addresses to the people of Pennsylvania by the Supreme Execu- tive Council, 204, 205; to the Assembly of Pennsylvania, 685, 686, 687, 688, 689.
Agents of forfeited estates appointed; their instructions touching the same, 479, 480, 587, 599.
Apprentices and servants not to be enlisted without written con- sent from masters, 243.
Allentown, stores belonging to the State to be delivered at, 579. Anniversary of Independence to be commemorated, 522.
Able-bodied persons to be compelled to enter service, 55, 59; all between the age of 15 and 60 to be enrolled, 60.
Arimed boats to be stationed at Gloucester Point, 4; their pay, 8. Armitage, Shubart, appointed third Lieut. in Col. Proctor's regi- iment, 774.
Armstrong, William, appointed paymaster at Mud Island, &c., 767.
Arms and ammunition to be supplied and furnished, 33.
Plate of, 752.
Arnold, General, incidentally mentioned or alluded to, 224, 522, 523, 562, 674, 680, 681, 692, 706, 709, 726, 759.
Arrangement of officers in the army, 179, 185, 190. Artillery, stationed at Fort Island, 1.
- - a regiment to be raised for the defence of Pennsylvania, 116, 136, 142.
Col. Eyre's battalion furnished with rum, tea, sugar, &c., 776.
Assembly, application to for borrowing money, 117, 177.
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Associators' families to be provided for, 22, 23, 28, 32, 33, 40, 41, 43, 93, 530; assistance solicited for them, 30; landlords not to distress their families, 30.
. Assistants to the Council of Safety appointed, 45.
Attack sudden and immediate upon Pennsylvania, anticipated, 227, 332.
Attainders of divers traitors, 504, 513, 514, 515, 768.
B.
BALTIMORE, Hessian officers, as prisoners, taken thither, 77, 104, 129.
Barracks Master General of Pennsylvania appointed, 51-additional duties assigned them, 144.
Battalion of Lancaster county, their conduct commendable, 90.
Bedford county, account settled for protecting the frontiers of the State, 16-Stockade fort at, 555.
Bread, all that may be found is to be secured, 303.
Berks county Associators refused to march to join General Wash- ington's army, 94.
Berkenhout Doctor, suspected of mischievous designs, 567.
- his letter to Richard Henry Lee, 569, 570-farther dispo- sition of the Doctor's case, 576.
Billingsport in New Jersey, fortifications at, 125, 139, 248, 572, 576, 643, 644.
Board of War appointed, 181 ; directed to apply to Congress for money, 182, 218.
appear before Council, 211; to furnish the Supreme Execu- tive Council with arms for the militia, 212, 213.
- memorial of Sieur Gerard before the Council, referred to, 553.
Bounty money to enlist soldiers, a loan applied for to Congress, 37.
Brigadier General of the State of Pennsylvania, appointed, 62, 199.
Bridge across the Schuylkill river, expensive, 711.
British take possession of the metropolis of the State, 325.
Brown John, his examination before Supreme Executive Council, 345, 347, 348.
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Boundary line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, 240, 556.
Bucks county, papers and records at, to be taken possession of and placed in the magazine, 128. a
- persons appointed to audit and settle accounts of the mili- tia, 146.
cattle driven off in, 281.
Burglaries, riots, &c., to be prevented in Philadelphia, by patroles, 42.
C.
CANNON COMMITTEE appointed, 7; Collected and mounted in Phila- delphia, 82.
Cattle Committee of drivers appointed, 244, 253, 281, 310.
Cape May, trading vessels at to be protected, 8.
arrived galley stationed at, 556, 557.
Cattle and other stock, ordered to be removed five miles from Dela- ware river, 4, 253, 310.
Captains of companies appointed, 2, 18, 20, 74.
Chester county militia furnished with arms, 219.
Civil department of State requiring attention, 181.
Clarkson, Matthew, Esqr., appointed Marshall of the Admiralty, 760.
Clothing for the army provided, 1, 772 ; call made upon private families, in Philadelphia, for blankets, stockings, &c., &c., 18 ; shoes to be purchases for the army, 56.
Colours taken from the enemy at Trenton, 70.
Congress, recommendation of, to the Council of Safety, 34; to borrow money from, 228.
calls out the militia, 203 ; resolution of, to call out an ad- ditional number of militia, 254.
letters from, inclosing acts relative to persons going within enemies' lines, &c, 753.
letter requesting militia to take post at Fort Mifflin and Billingsport, 766.
Commissioners appointed to seize and sell the property of torier, 330, 348.
Commissary of continental stores at Lancaster, 86.
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Commissions granted for letters of marque and reprisals, 2, 21. Conference with deputies of Massachusetts Bay, touching, 729.
Continental money, dangerous consequences for refusing taking it, 2; those refusing to take to be punished, 70.
counterfeited, 234.
Constitution of the state not satisfactory ; amendment proposed, 220: ·
Conelly enlarged on giving security, 196, 200.
Convention prisoners, their escort, &c, 63.
Council of Safety, Minutes of, 1, 100, 325, 353; proclamation of, to exercise general powers, 325, 326, 353.
Continental stores removed from Philadelphia, 21, 44.
Count D'Estaing, 692.
D.
DAYS of solemn fasting and humiliation, appointed by Congress, 175; by the State of Pennsylvania, 176, 369, 438, 627.
De Haven Peter, appointed Health officer of port of Philadelphia, 775.
Deserters, from the army, to be advertised, 106.
Dickinson's intercepted letter, 92.
Dunlap's press and type employed to inform the public of affairs, 46.
E.
EASTON, Indian treaty at, 96, 98; churches at, request leave to raise contributions to pay debt on churches, 422.
- money and papers belonging to the Public loan office in Philadelphia to be removed to Easton, 305, 306, 307; books of state library sent to Easton, 309.
Egg-harbor, British fleet arrived at, 253.
Eichelberger George, deputy commissary of the United States, charged with using threatening language to influence election' officers, 700, 701.
Election of president & vice president of the Supreme Executive Council, 633, 634.
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Embargo laid on the exportation of wheat, rye, corn, &o, 545, 546. 568, 725.
Enemies of the United States committed to prison, 59.
Estates, forfeited ones, advertised to be sold, 745. Examination of John Brown, 345, 347, 348, 349.
Expresses and their stations, 74.
Executions ordered, Thomas Taylor of Lancaster Co., and Tho. Crouch of Berks Co., for felony and robbery, and Catharine Fisher of Lancaster Co., for murder, 780.
F.
FELONY, seven persons convicted and in goal, discharged, 753.
Field officers nominated and elected, 74, 97 ; arrangement of, 179; letter from to the Supreme Executive council, 731.
Floating bridge across the Schuylkill, 56.
Flour, relative to raising price of, 767.
Fireships fitted out for service, 255, 256.
Forestallers, cited to appear before the Supreme Executive council, 639, 640.
Forestalling, proclamation against, 671. Forfeited estates advertised to be sold, 745.
Fortifications for defence of Philadelphia, plan of by Gen. De Portail, vote of thanks, &o, 776; adopted and directed to be executed, 777.
Fort Island, a boom fixed at, 31.
France, fleet from with troops, 532 ; Ambassador plenipotentiary from, public audience in Congress, 548.
Franks David, Commissary of British prisoners, 682.
Free Mason's Lodge, a temporary prison, for disaffected & suspi- cious persons, inimical to the county, 285, 289, 290, 292, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299.
Freedom of America, who may be suspected as inimical thereto, 38.
Frontiers to be protected, 726, 750.
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G.
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GERMAN newspapers circulated, 409. .
Gerard Sieur, Minister Plenipotentiary from France, 547, 548, 558, 645, 678.
Glocester Point, armed boats to be stationed at, 4.
Guard appointed to protect the powder magazine in Philadelphia, 26.
Gun-factory belonging to the State disposed of, 644.
Gunpowder, regulations touching the keeping of it, 657.
H.
HALE, THOMAS, appointed agent for forfeited estates in Philadel- phia county, 767.
Hartly, Thomas, Colonel, vote of thanks by the Supreme Executive Council, 640 ; his plan for the defence of the frontiers adopted, 646.
Hand, General, at Pittsburg, asks for armed men to destroy Indian settlements, 261.
Heidleburg township, in Berks county, guard in, 36.
Henry George, appointed commissary of naval stores, 649.
Hessian prisoners put to shoemaking at Lancaster, 85, 186 ; a guard placed over them, 94.
Hospital, Pennsylvania, taken up for sick troops, 34.
Holliday, William, appointed paymaster for Bedford county, 637. Howe, General, advancing towards Princeton, N. J., 39.
Hubley, Adam, elected lieutenant colonel of Pennsylvania troops, 770; recommended to board of war as commandant of 11th re- giment, 778.
Hummelstown, in Dauphin county, gun-factory to be established at, 314.
Hunter's battalion of Berks county, refuse to march to join General Washington's army, 94.
I.
INDIANS practice cruelties upon the frontier settlers, 261, 347, 383,. 531, 765.
- war to be carried into their country, 726.
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Inimical persons towards the United States, suspected and com- plained of, 190, 261, 264, 265, 267, 269; all suspected ones to be immediately apprehended, 279, 383 ; a large number of arrests, 283, 284 ; committee appointed to make arrests, 286; their re- port, 288, 289 ; numerous arrests after appointment of committee, in several counties, 290, 307, 308, 344, 845, 402, 460, 472, 473, 504, .513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 525, 529, 556, 601, 602, 603, 604, 610, 611.
Ill treatment towards American prisoners by the British, 6, 56, 657, 658.
Instructions to Captain Rice from the Committee of Safety, 8; from the Supreme Executive Council, touching recruiting officers, 419, 420, 421.
Intercepted communications, 92.
J.
JUSTICES of the peace elected by the freeholders, 228, 759, 760, .770, 774; if from neglect to elect, 239.
K.
KNAPSACKS, six thousand delivered, 26.
L.
LANCASTER, prisoners at to be guarded, 4; records and public papers removed to, 23; General Roberdeau removed to 41; powder stored at, 41; battalions at marched from, 78; the bat- talion of this county, their conduct commendable, 90; powder magazine and other military store-houses to be built at, 115, 271, 738; petition from, complaining of a want of magistrates, 211; militia to be armed, 212 ; British prisoners at, threaten to destroy Lancaster, 236; Supreme Executive Council meet in, 313; remove again to Philadelphia, 521; commissary appointed at, 86.
Lebanon, guards to be stationed at, 417. Levy, Miss, passing to New York, suspected, 676.
Lieutenants appointed, and other officers, 23, 24, 31, 32, 34, 47, 65, 98, 205, 218.
Loans for, application made to Congress, 12, 37, 115.
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MAGAZINES and military stores to be guarded, 446.
Marine committee of Congress, 7.
Marque and reprisal, letters of, commissions for granted, 2, 3, 21. Maryland, Flying Camp raised in and equipped, 28.
Marshall, Benjamin, appointed ensign of 5th Pennsylvania regi- ment, 754.
Memorandum, a certain one found in the Council Book, 149.
Metropolis of the State taken possession of by the British, 325.
Militia, some deserters amongst them, 102; an additional number called out, 254.
charged with misconduct, and a court of inquiry appointed, 775.
Messages to the General Assembly, &c., 711, 734.
Morris, C. S., appointed to have the care of prisoners of war in Pennsylvania, 5.
Minutes of Council of Safety, 1-170, 323-353.
- of the Supreme Executive Council, 173-800.
Mud Island, barracks at ordered to be completed, 725.
Murran, William, appointed ensign in second Pennsylvania bat- talion, 783.
N.
NEWSPAPERS taken by the Supreme Executive Council, 409, 648.
Navy board appointed, 122, 182; memorials of to the Supreme Executive Council, 182, 192, 193.
Naval Officers appointed, 199-naval board empowered to purchase twelve vessels, fitted out as fireships, 255; commodore and su- pernumary officers discharged, 552, 554.
Non-Associators arms to be taken from, 36, 37, 79, 108, 140; 279. - sore complaint against them, 198.
- militia quartered upon them, 100.
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28.
mt, 1; to man and continental money, og the enemy's ves- letters, de., to the of fines, &c., 747.
musylvania regiment, tributed, 13, 14, 22.
Dot having taken oath
Habe 216; B
kings, 8, 9. J, 248. lo designs, 807. I other officers regulated, of Congress, 7, 10. 7, 18, 34, 35, 42, 50, 56, 68,
Inl, by Caleb Lorne, 752. 50, 215. & regiment ordered thither, 531
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Philadelphia, works defence at, 40; citizens to remove from, 218. militia of arranged for service, 219 ; ordered to march 224, 231, the enemy approaching it, 253, 298; the British take pos- session of, 325; measures adopted to regain the city, 404.
Poor persons relieved, 20, 530.
Powdermill, continental one carried on, 88. - burnt at French creek, 184.
Powder magazine, built at Lancaster, 118.
Pottsgrove, provision store at, 423.
Princeton, General Howe advancing towards it, 39.
Printers engaged in printing certificates for Continental loans, to be detained, 31.
Prisoners at Lancaster and Reading to be guarded, 5.
- of war to be taken in charge by S. C. Morris, 5 ; by Howe and others, 89; Livingston's letter touching them, 185.
enlarged 263, 290, 291, 295, 296, 308, 360, 406. American held by the British, 564.
Prize money for vessels, how to be distributed, 740.
Proclamations touching General Howe's approaching Philadelphia, 298.
325.
by Committee of Safety, that Howe is in Philadelphia, . touching exportation of victuals, &c., 545.
against forestalling, 671. laying embargo on vessels, 763.
Q.
QUALIFICATIONS directed to be taken by the members of the Su- preme Executive council, 174.
Quakers present a memorial to the Supreme Executive council, 426, 427.
had a hearing before the council, 429.
Quartermaster's appointed for Pennsylvania, 21, 25, 84. Mitchell's book altered, 707.
R.
Rangers, companies of to be raised, &c., 730, 731. Rank among officers, how determined, 226.
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Reading, prisonari at to be guarded, 4.
- tories at, imprisoned, 89.
Records and public papers removed to Lancaster, 23. .
Recruiting officers appointed, 418, 464, 469.
Resolutions touching the artillery at Fort Island, 1; to man and fit out vessels, 1, 2. . 70. of Congress touching refusing to take continental money,
Reward of $12,000 for capturing and destroying the enemy's ves- sels, 646.
Rice Patrick, to give bonds, not to take any letters, de., to the city of New York, 701.
Rule touching applications for the remission of fines, &c., 747. Rum, certain portion allowed to soldiers, 230.
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SAFETY committee, minutes of, 1-170, 323.
Saltworks in New Jersey, protected by a Pennsylvania regiment, 114, 126, 191. . .
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Salt, in possession of Council of Safety to be distributed, 13, 14, 22. -- resolutions concerning, 16, 20, 40, 51.
Schools in Philadelphia re-opened, 38.
Schoolmasters confined in jail at Lancaster, not having taken oath of allegiance, 652.
Secret committee of Congress, and their doings, 8, 9.
Servants and apprentices not to be enlisted, 243.
Shelly, offers to disclose certain treasonable designs, 307.
Ship General Green, pay of Captain and other officers regulated, 757 ; Officers appointed, 765, 766.
Shot, delivered to the marine committee of Congress, 7, 10.
Sick persons & soldiers provided for, 13, 34, 35, 42, 50, 56, 68, 83, 100, 115, 133.
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State arms, cut out on printer's metal, by Caleb Lorne, 752.
State battalion put into the service, 215.
Standing Stone, (Huntingdon,) a regiment ordered thither, 531
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Stansbury & Smith, suspected of practices tending to alienate, &c., 43.
Story, Samuel, appointed Third Lieut. in Col. Proctor's regiment 776.
Sullivan, General, orders the militia at Coryel's ferry to march for- ward to meet the enemy in New Jersey, 255.
Sunbury, militia ordered thither, 532.
Supreme Executive Council, minute of, 173.
-- authorized to borrow money, 739.
Suspected persons as guilty of treason, or to be disaffected, 54, 264- all such to be immediately apprehended, 279-numerous arrests, 283, 284, 288, 289, 308, 315, 344, 345, 347, 357, 259, 360, 365, 402, 460, 462, 472, 504, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 525, 529, 601, 602, 603, 606, 610, 611.
T.
TABELLION public, for the English, French and Spanish languages, 200.
Tanners, who are associators to be furnished with hides in prefer- ence to others, 58.
Tools of the gun factory to be removed from Philadelphia, 48.
Thompson, William General, makes high charges against Thomas M'Kean, Esq., Chief Justice of State, 659, 660.
Town Major appointed at Philadelphia, 26; escorts prisoners of war from Philadelphia to Newtown, Bucks county, 30.
at Lancaster, 78.
Tories imprisoned at Reading, 89.
their property seized, &c., 326, 327, 380.
Traitors, aot touching them, &c., 746.
George Handy, convicted of treason, ordered to be execu- ted, 754 ; execution postponed, 764.
Treasonable designs, persons charged with, 12, 307, 566.
Treaty with Indians at Easton, 96 ; presents and goods provided for them, 108.
Transports, several hundred sailed for New York, 3.
Troops to be raised in Westmoreland, Cumberland, Lancaster and Northumberland counties, 7, 80.
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V.
VALLEY FORGE, Washington at, his address to the people of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland & Virginia, 429.
Vendues, abuses of complained of and ordered to be suppressed, 767. Verner, Frederick, his trial, 561; farther notice of him, 720.
Vessels not suffered to depart the port of Philadelphia, 23; Em- bargo laid on, 761; Proclamations, 763, 779 ; Embargo taken off, 783.
Victuals and provisions, embargo laid on, &c., 545, 546, 646. Volunteers, enrolled for the army, 26.
W.
WAGES of the members of Assembly, &c., fixed by law, 736, 737.
Wagons for continental service, 28, 29, 24, 247, 261, 291, 341, 343, 409, 520, 588, 589, 706, 708, 709, 721, 778.
Wagon-masters, appointed 64; empowered to stable and feed their horses at their convenience, and pay for the same, 63 ; relative to pay, 761.
Wampum, laid before the Council, 212.
Washington, General, reinforced, 24, 25, 28, 39, 44, 49; he recom- mends the militia of Pennsylvania to be formed into brigades, 27, 62; notifies the Supreme Executive Council of a meditated attack of the British upon Pennsylvania, 227; recommends a list of recruiting officers, 418; he addresses the people of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland & Virginia, 429; letter from him, 650; adopts vigorous measures for covering the frontiers of Pennsylvania, 723.
Watchmen of Philadelphia permitted to remain on nocturnal duty, 30.
Weitzel Colonel, conduct in calling militia, &c., 706, 707, 708.
Westmoreland county, public records unlawfully removed by M. Hoofnagle, to Lancaster, 252, 432.
furnished with ammunition, 716.
Whiskey, price of regulated, 388 ; law against distilling of, 647. Wharton, Thomas, death and funeral of, 499.
Wood supplied to the poor in Philadelphia, 70.
Wrecks raised in the river Delaware, 560, 719, 720.
Wright's Ferry, militia to meet at, to escort Convention prisoners, 637.
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An order was drawn on Mr. Nesbitt, in favour of Col. Wm. Cook or Capt. Miller, for 2000 Dollars, to be charged to Col. Cook, off 12 Battalion.
Mr. Nesbitt to pay Amos Strattell £1784 7 9 for Block Tin, Copper & Sulphur.
Resolved, That Messrs. Rittenhouse, Matlack & Cannon, be & Committee to draw up a memorial to be presented to the Honora- ble House of Assembly at their next meeting, setting forth the dangerous Consequence that will attend the refusal of the Conti- Dental Currency.
Resolved, That Robert Levers, Esq'r, be appointed Paymaster to the 12 Pennsylvania Regiment in the Continental Service, com. manded by Col. Wm. Cook.
The Council adjourned to 3 o'Clock.
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Members met.
David Rittenhouse, John Bayard, Geo. Gray,
Francis Gurney,
S. C. Morris,
Timothy Matlack,
James Cannon,
Fred. Kuhl,
Joseph Blewer,
Henry Kippele.
Resolved, That Capt. Blewer & Mr. Sam'l C. Morris be requested to fitt out the Armed Boat Convention, Capt. Rice, with all Possi- ble Expedition, and that they be desired to apply to the Marine Committee for such Stores belonging to Congress as may be wanted for that purpose.
The Council proceeded to the appointment of Captains in the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment, in the Continental Service, Como- manded by Col. Richard Humpton, when the following Gentlemen were appointed, vizt : Doct'r Jno. Coates, Wm. Henderson, Sam- uel Dawson, Adolph Wm. Hedrick, Geo. Calhoun, Wm. McKimack, Wm. Bradford, jun'r, & John Douglass.
Mr. Nesbitt to pay Rob't Smith £3 6 8, for riding Express for the Convention to give notice to the Militia to march to New Jersey.
Resolved, That John Simpson, Esq'r, be appointed Paymaster ·to the 8th Penn'a Regiment, in the Continental service, commanded by Col. AEneas McCoy.
Agreeable to a resolve of Congress, the Following Commissions ·were granted for Letters of Mark, vizt :
To Thomas Bell, Commander of the Ship Speedwell, of the Bur- then of Tons, navigated by 25 men, Ten Carriage Guns, owned by John Maxwell Nesbitt & Co.
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To Robert Collings, Commander of the Sloop Friendship, about 30 Tons Barthen, navigated by Twenty men, 6 Carriage Guns, owned by John Wilcocks & Co.
In Council of Safety.
PHILAD'A, Novem'r 14th, 1776.
PRESENT :
SAM'L MORRIS, Chairman.
Owen Biddle, Fred. Kuhl, Jos. Blewer,
Francis Gurney,
Henry Kippele, Sam'I C. Morris.
Mr. Nesbitt was directed to pay the Following Accounts, viz : Mr. Robert Towers' Acco't for Workmen's Wages, making Cart- ridges, &os, £56 6 8.
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