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In favor of John Gloningher, Esquire, for the sum of four pounds ten shillings and three pence specie, ballance due to him upon a settlement of his account as late Sub-Lieutenant of Lan- caster county, to be paid out of the militia fund of the said county.
The Comptroller . General's report upon the account of Samuel Nelson, for a gun lost in the Flying Camp, at the taking of Fort Washington, was read & approved.
Benjamin Chew and Tench Francis, Esquires, Attornics for John Penn, and John Penn, junior, attended in Council, and were heard on their claims to payment of fifteen thousand pounds sterling, and interest thereon, provided by act of Assembly.
The fine to the State imposed upon John Morgan, convicted of larceny at the January Sessions of the City Court, (1785) was re- mitted.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, January 18th, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill, John McCallister, 1
Evan Evans, John Woods,
Samuel Dean, William Brown.
Esquires.
John Neville, John Whitehill and
John Boyd, Stephen Balliet,
The execution of Robert Wilson, now under sentence of death in the jail of Chester, was deferred from the twenty-first instant until the eleventh day of February, 1786.
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Two orders were drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Penn and John Penn, junior, on order, for the sum of fifteen thou- sand pounds sterling, and interest thereon from the third day of September, 1784, until the first day of May, 1785, agreeably to a law passed on the twenty-seventh day of November, 1779, and a supplement thereto, passed on the 9th day of February, 1785.
The Comptroller General's report upon the account of Samuel Whitley, Esquire, for a gun and blanket lost at Chesnut Hill, in an action with the enemy in November, 1777, was read and approved.
Orders were drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of William Go- vett, Esquire, for forty-one pounds five shillings, for his services as Deputy Commissary General of issues ; and in favor of Captain Samuel Davis, for fifteen pounds nine shillings and five pence, for militia services from 1777 to 1779, inclusively. The latter to be paid out of the militia fines of Lancaster county ; the former from. the militia fund generally.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, January 19th, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill, Evan Evans,
John M'Callister,
John Woods,
Samuel Dean,
William Brown,
John Neville, John Boyd,
John Whitehill, & Stephen Balliet.
A petition of sundry inhabitants of this city, in favor of Matthias Aspden, an attainted traitor, was read, and a question taken whether a reprieve shall issue to the said Matthias Aspden, untill the end of the next session of the General Assembly. This question was determined in the affirmative.
See the letter book of Council for instructions given this day to Michael Hillegas and Tench Francis, Esquires, upon the subject of the delinquent purchasers of Barracks lots.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Nicholson, Esquire, for the sum of two hundred pounds specie, be- ing one quarter's salary due to him as Comptroller General, and ending the thirteenth instant.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, January 20th, 1786. PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President
Henry Hill,
William Brown,
Evan Evans,
John Boyd,
Samuel Dean,
John Neville,
John Whitehill,
Peter Muhlenberg.
Stephen Balliet,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of William Rees, for the the sum of nineteen pounds fourteen shillings and six pence specie, for the farther improvement of the State House lot, according to acts of Assembly dated the twentieth day of February, 1735-6, and fourteenth day of May, 1762, and resolution of As- sembly dated the twenty-fifth day of September, 1783, for which he is to account.
A question was submitted to the Judges of the Supreme Court, (by letter from the Secretary,) whether agreeably to the supple- ment to an act passed on the twenty-seventh day of November, 1779, providing for the immediate payment of fifteen thousand pounds sterling, to the late proprietaries, they (the proprietaries) are intitled to interest upon the sum aforesaid, after the first day of May, 1785.
An order was taken that the petition of Henry Bedkin, late a Captain of Dragoons in the Legion of Armand, be referred to the House in their next session.
The Council met.
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PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, January 21st, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice Presid't.
Henry Hill, William Brown,
Evan Evans, John Neville,
Peter Muhlenberg,
John Whitehill, and
Esquires.
Stephen Balliet,
Samuel Dean,
John Boyd,
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Muir, for four pounds eleven shillings and three pence specie, amount of his account for binding Journals of Congress, and Acts and Jour-
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nals of the House of Assembly, according to the Comptroller Gene- ral's report.
Abraham Piatt, Esquire, was appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Peace and a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Northumberland, upon a return made ac- cording to law, for the township of Potters.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, January 23rd, 1786. PRESENT :
As before.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, January 24th, 1786. PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill,
William Brown,
Evan Evans,
John Neville,
Peter Muhlenberg,
John Whitehill, and
Stephen Balliet, John Boyd,
Samuel Dean.
A certificate of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the county of Northampton, recommendatory of a division of the dis- trict of Lower Smithfield and Hamilton townships, read the first . time on June the twenty-seventh, 1785, was read again, and an order taken that the division aforesaid be confirmed, each township to be hereafter a distinct district.
A petition from the township of Lower Smithfield, Northampton county, praying that the prosecutions commenced against such of them as may have been delinquent in paying their taxes, be stayed until they can have an opportunity of stating to the General As- sembly their common pretensions to some farther indulgence.
Ordered thereon, That the prosecutions aforesaid be stayed until the end of the next sessions of Assembly.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Nichol- son, Esquire, for the sum of five hundred pounds, State money, for the purpose of paying one-third of depreciation certificates, for which sum he is to account.
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Council proceeded to the appointment of a Collector of Excise for the county of Northampton, and the votes being taken, it ap- peared that James Pettigrew, Esquire, was appointed.
An order was taken that Thursday next be assigned for going into the appointment of a Prothonotary or Clerk to the Supreme Court.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Samuel Dean, Esquire, for the sum of thirty-three pounds, in full for his attendance in Council until this day, inclusively.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, January 25th, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice Presid't.
Henry Hill, Stephen Balliet,
Evan Evans,
John Boyd,
-- McCallister, John Woods,
Esquires.
John Whitehill,
William Brown,
Peter Muhlenberg, John Neville,
The accounts of James Martin, Esquire, of Bedford county, and the recruiting account of Archibald Campbell, deceased, late Lieu- tenant of the sixth Pennsylvania regiment, were read and approved, and an order was drawn in favor of the estate of the latter for eleven pounds two shillings and eight pence specie, being the bal- lance due by the State.
Patrick Kemsey's petition was read, and it was
Ordered, That the fine adjudged to be paid by him to the State upon conviction of larceny at the April sessions of the City Court, 1785, be remitted.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Thomas Armor, for three pounds twelve shillings, ballance due to him upon his account for recruiting in the year 1778, according to the Comp- troller General's report.
A petition from Edward Burd, Esquire, praying to be continued in the office of Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, was read.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, January 26th, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
John Boyd, Henry Hill,
Richard McAllister,
William Brown,
John Whitehill,
Stephen Balliet,
Esquires.
Peter Muhlenberg,
John Neville, and
John Woods, Evan Evans,
A petition from sundry inhabitants of the townships of Oxford, Lower Dublin, Moreland and Biberry, in the county of Philadel- phia, praying that Doctor Enoch Edwards be appointed a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county, was read, and Mr. Edwards commissionated accordingly.
Upon a return of an election of Justices of the Peace for the district of Macungie and Weisenberg townships, in the county of Northampton, George Breinig, Esquire, was commissionated a Jus- tice of the Peace for the said district.
Upon a return of an election of Justices of the Peace for the district of Upper Salford, in the county of Montgomery, Michael Croll, Esquire, was commissionated a Justice of the Peace for the said district, and also a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
A petition from Thomas Wilkinson, convicted of horse stealing at the January sessions of the City Court, praying that the sen- tence of cropping, which has been passed upon him, was read and granted.
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Upon the petition of Jane Gardner, convicted of larceny at the last City Court, it was
Ordered, That her corporal punishment be remitted.
Council proceeded, agreeably to the order of the twenty-fourth, to the appointment of a Prothonotary to the Supreme Court, when Edward Burd, Esquire, was appointed.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, January the 27th, 1786.
PRESENT :
Evan Evans, John Boyd,
Richard McCallister,
Stephen Balliet,
John Neville,
John Whitehill, and William Brown,
Esquires.
No Council.
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PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, January the 28th, 1786. PRESENT :
As yesterday.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, January the 30th, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Evan Evans, Stephen Balliet,
John Boyd, John Whitehill, and
Richard McCallister, William Brown,
Requires.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Tuesday, January the 31st, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill, William Brown,
Evan Evans, John Boyd,
Stephen Balliet, John Woods, and
John Whitehill, John Neville.
Richard McCallister,
The following orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
In favor of the Honorable Henry Hill, Esquire, for the sum of forty-four pounds five shillings specie, in full for his attendance in Council until this day, inclu.
In favor of the Honorable John Woods, Esquire, for twenty pounds five shillings, in full for his attendance in Council until this day inclusively.
In favor of the Honorable Stephen Balliet, Esquire, for the sum of twenty-three pounds five shillings specie, in full for his attend- , ance in Council until this day, inclusively.
In favor of Frederick Sneider, for the sum of fifteen pounds thirteen shillings specie, in full for his wages as door-keeper to Council until this day, inclusively, and cash paid for sweeping two chimneys.
Upon the petitions of Charles Smith, Mary Joiner, and Eleanor Wright, now confined in the new jail, it was
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Ordered, That the corporal punishment to which they were re- spectively sentenced upon their several convictions for larceny, be remitted.
Mr. Rittenhouse attending, informed Council that Francis Wade. had neglected to return a considerable sum of paper money of the last emission, put into his hands for signing, and that it is to be feared he will shortly be insolvent.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, February 1st, 1786. PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Evan Evans, Richard McCallister,
Samuel Dean,
John Boyd,
Henry Hill,
John Woods,
Esquires.
Stephen Balliet,
William Brown, and
John Neville,
John Whitehill,
The Comptroller General's report upon the account of Captain Joseph Walker, of the Lancaster county militia, for pay of bis company, was read and approved.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, February 2nd, 1786.
PRESENT : His Excellency BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Esquire, President.
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire; Vice President.
Henry Hill Richard McCallister,
Samuel Dean, Peter Muhlenberg,
Evan Evans, John Woods,
Esquires.
Stephen Balliet, William Brown, and
Mr. Boyd, John Neville,
Two orders were drawn upon the Treasurer, vizt :
One in favor of the Honorable Peter Muhlenberg, Esquire, for twenty-three pounds fifteen shillings specie; and the other in favor of the Honorable John Neville, Esquire, for twenty-three pounds five shillings specie, being in full for their attendance in Council, respectively, untill the thirty-first day of January last, inclusively, and the mileage of the former.
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An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of Joseph Ker, for the sum of one pound fourteen shillings specie, in full of his account for signing bills of credit of the last emission, according to the Comptroller General's report.
The Comptroller General's report upon the account of the War- dens of the Port of Philadelphia, from September the first, 1783, to the first day of April, 1784, was read and approved, and an order drawn for the sum of forty-eight pounds four shillings specie, in favor of the Wardens, being a ballance due upon the said account.
Upon the petition of James Durant, convicted of a misdemeanor at the Sessions of the City Court held in July, 1785, it was
Ordered, That the fine adjudged to be paid to the use of the State, by the said James Durant, be remitted.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, February 3d, 1786.
PRESENT : 1
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President. 7
Henry Hill, John Neville,
Evan Evans, Richard McCallister, - Esquires.
Samuel Dean, John Whitehill,
Peter Muhlenberg,
William Brown, and
John Boyd, John Woods,
On motion of Mr. Muhlenberg, it was
Ordered, That Tuesday next be set apart for determining upon the case of Robert Elliott, now confined in the jail of Chester county, under sentence of death for burglary.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James Mccutcheon, for the sum of fifty-two pounds six shillings and seven pence half penny specie, amount of his account for beef fur- nished to a number of the natives of China and Bengal, now in this city, under a resolution of the General Assembly dated the seventh day of November, 1785.
The following deeds were signed by the Honorable Charles Biddle, Esquire, vizt :
To Joseph Donnaldson, for a lot of ground, marked with the letter E, being part of the ground whereon the barracks lately stood, situate on the east side of Third street continued, and on the north side of Tammany street, twenty feet in front, by one hundred and twelve feet in depth. Purchase money one hundred and seventy pounds. Deed dated this day.
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To David Schaffer, junior, for lots number 12 and 13, part of the barracks ground, as aforesaid, situate on the west side of Second street continued, in the Northern Liberties, and on the east side of Lilly ally, containing together, in front forty feet, and in depth one hundred and twelve feet. Consideration money three hundred pounds. Deed dated this day.
The Comptroller General's reports upon the following accounts for militia services in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, in Colonel Glatz's battalion of Lancaster county:
Of Captains Peter Schaffner, Michael App, and Christopher Petrey, were read and approved, and orders drawn for the sums due to them respectively, vizt :
In favor of Captain Peter Schaffer, for 'eighteen pounds twelve shillings and eleven pence.
In favor of Captain Michael App, for fourteen pounds thirteen shillings and three pence.
And in favor of Christopher Petree, for sixteen pounds seven shillings and one penny specie.
Ordered, That the Land Officers be directed to proceed to the sale of the fourth district, surveyed by Mr. Cunningham, as soon as the sales of the depreciation lands advertized to be held on the first day of March next are completed.
The Council met.
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PHILADELPHIA, Saturday, February 4th, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill, Richard McCallister,
Evan Evans, John Woods,
Samuel Dean,
William Brown,
John Whitehill,
Isaac Meason,
John Boyd, Peter Muhlenberg.
Stephen Balliet,
A petition from Francis Wade, praying a stay of the prosecu- tion directed to be commenced against him for the recovery of a sum of money, money withheld by him from the Treasury, was read and unanimously rejected.
An order was taken that all fines to the State, and corporal pun- ishment imposed upon John Ryan, Sarah Ryan, and John. Read, under their several convictions of larceny at the January term of the Court of General Quarter Sessions held at Hanna's town, for the county of Westmoreland, be remitted.
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The Comptroller General's reports upon the accounts of John Lawrence, Jun'r, late Lieutenant Colonel of the Flying Camp of Pennsylvania, and of Robert Levers, Esquire, Prothonotary of the county of Northampton, for marriage and tavern licenses, from the twenty-fourth of October to the twenty-ninth of December, 1785, were read and approved.
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'The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, February 6, 1786.
PRESENT :
Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill, Richard McCallister,
Evan Evans,
John Woods,
Samuel Dean,
William Brown,
Esquires.
John Whitehill,
Isaac Meason, and
John Boyd,
Peter Muhlenberg,
Stephen Balliet,
On the application of Christian Wirtz,
Ordered, That he be exempted from the operation of the late order for prosecuting without delay all delinquent purchasers of barrack lotts, until the farther directions of the Board.
William Johnstone, Esquire, was appointed a Justice of the Peace upon a return of an election of Justices for the district of Donegal, in the county of Washington, and commissionated accord- ingly. To this commission was added that of a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
On motion of Mr. Neville,
The town of Washington was this day erected into a distinct district for the election of Justices of the Peace, agreeably to a certificate of the Court of the county of Washington.
The Comptroller General's report upon the account of Doctor Benjamin Rush, for his pay as Director General, &ca., &ca., of the Hospitals of the militia employed in 1776, under the command of General Cadwallader, was read and approved, and an order drawn for the sum of forty six pounds ten shillings thereon, to be paid out of the militia fines of the city and liberties of Philadelphia.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, February 7th, 1786, Tuesday.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill, Richard McCallister, r
Evan Evans, John Woods,
Samuel Dean, William Brown,
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Esquires.
John Whitehill,
Isaac Meason, and
John Boyd,
Peter Muhlenberg,
Stephen Balliet,
An order was taken that the same indulgence which by the minute of yesterday was extended to Christian Wirtz, be admitted in the case of Michael Gunkle.
A pardon was issued to Robert Elliot, convicted of burglary, and now under sentence of death in the jail of Chester, subject to this condition only : that he transport himself beyond the seas, not to return to the United States.
Upon the petition of James Lang,
Resolved, That an order be drawn in his favor for the ballance due on his account as Commissioner of Cloathing, agreeably to the Comptroller General's report of the twentieth day of August, 1784, to be paid out of the monies in the hands of Samuel Penrose, be- ing the arrears of rent due of State Island, to the Commonwealth.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of James McCrea, for eight pounds ten shillings specie, in full of his account for signing bills of credit of the last emission, according to the Comptroller General's report.
The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Thursday, Feb'y the ninth, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President. Henry Hill, Richard McCallister, 7
Evan Evans, John Woods,
Samuel Dean, William Brown,
John Whitehill,
Isaac Meason, and Esquires. John Boyd, Peter Muhlenberg,
Stephen Balliet,
A petition from Colonel Francis Nichols, praying the remission of a fine of fifty pounds specie, imposed upon him on conviction of
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an assault and battery on Joseph Gardner, Esquire, in 1782, was read, and the prayer thereof granted.
The fine imposed upon William Floyd, on conviction of larceny at the late City Court, was remitted.
An order was drawn upon the Treasurer in favor of John Boyd, Esquire, for forty-six pounds ten shillings, in full of his account for his attendance at this Board untill the thirty-first day of Jan- uary last, inclusively.
The Comptroller General's reports upon the accounts of John Smith, for pay of himself and workmen, employed in 1777, in framing the second line of Chevaux de Frize, and in superintend- ing the carpenters, (erecting a platform for cannon,) from the twelfth day of September until the twelfth day of November, 1778, was read and approved.
Council agreed to employ James Elliott as an express, to proceed to Wioming for the purpose of distributing fifty copies of the late act of Assembly for quieting the disturbances at that place, for pardoning certain offenders, and for other purposes in the said act mentioned ; for which service he is to be allowed thirty-five shil- lings per day ; and an order was drawn upon the Treasurer in his favor, for the sum of five pounds specie, towards defraying his ex- pences, for which he is to account.
The letter of instructions given to James Elliott, is as follows, vizt :
The Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania, to James Elliott of the city of Philadelphia.
SIR :- You are hereby directed and authorized to proceed with all convenient speed to Wioming, in the county of Northumberland, and there deliver to persons best known in that place, the several copies of the law of which you have charge, obtaining receipts for the same. As soon as you have performed this service, you will return and make report thereof to this Board.
Given in Council under the hand of the Honorable CHARLES
BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President, and the seal of the State at Philadelphia, this ninth day of March, Anno Domini one thou- sand seven hundred and eighty-six.
CHARLES BIDDLE, V. P. Attest :- JOHN ARMSTRONG, Junior, Secretary.
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The Council met.
PHILADELPHIA, Friday, February 10th, 1786.
PRESENT :
The Honorable CHARLES BIDDLE, Esquire, Vice President.
Henry Hill, John Boyd,
Evan Evans, John Neville,
Samuel Dean, Isaac Meason,
John Whitehill,
Peter Muhlenberg, and
Esquires.
Richard M'Callister,Stephen Balliet,
John Woods,
Upon the petition of William Callahan, convicted of larceny in the county of Philadelphia ; it was
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Ordered, That the fine adjudged to be paid to the use of the State by the said William Callahan, be remitted.
On motion of Mr. Balliet, it was
Ordered, That George Breinig, Esquire, appointed a Justice of the Peace for the county of Northampton, on the twenty-sixth day of January last, be also appointed and commissionated a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the said county.
The Comptroller General's report on the recruiting account of Nehemiah Stokely, Esquire, late a Captain in the eighth Pennsyl- vania regiment, was read and approved.
A petition from a number of persons of the African race, praying that they may be permitted to enclose a part of the lott in this city commonly called the Negroes burial ground, for the purpose of burying their dead exclusively, was read and referred to the Surveyor General.
The Comptroller General's reports upon the accounts of Captain John Galloway, of the militia of Bedford county, and of Robert Har- die, for expenses while a prisoner with the British army, were read and approved.
Two orders were drawn upon the Treasurer : The one in favor of Brigadier General John Armstrong, for nine pounds two shil- lings and eight pence specie, being the ballance of his account with the State as a Commissioner, &ca , to Wioming : And the other in favor of the estate of Captain Michael Whitley, late of the militia of Lancaster county, for three pounds three shillings and four pence specie, being the value of a gun and blanket lost by the said Whitley in the action at Chesnut hill, in the year 1777, the latter to be paid out of the militia fines of Lancaster county.
On application of Sharp Delany, Esquire,
Ordered, That the three casks of paints, imported in the Brigantine Favorite, Captain Caldwell, from London, and lodged
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