New-York Committee of Safety

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NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

In Committee of Safety for the Colony of New-York, during the recess of the Provincial Congress, Die Mercurii, A˙ M˙, January 3, 1776.

Several gentlemen of the Committee of Safety have attended daily since the recess of Congress, but have not had Members sufficient to form a Quorum, until this day, when the following gentlemen attended, to wit:

Colonel Pierre VanCortlandt, Colonel McDougall, Mr˙ Scott, Mr˙ Sands, Mr˙ Brewster, Mr˙ Clarke, Mr˙ Spooner.

The gentlemen present unanimously chose Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Chairman of the Committee of Safety.

Mr˙ Nicholas Low, attended on the Committee, and offered to them four hundred and sixty-five quarter casks of Gunpowder. The Committee agreed to pay Mr˙ Low twenty Pounds per hundred, for the said Gunpowder, which is the price Mr˙ Low requests.

Mr˙ Low agrees to deliver eighteen quarter casks of the said Gunpowder, to the order of this Committee, in Elizabethtown, and the residue in the City of New-York, to the order of this Committee, in two equal moieties, in two different nights.

The Committee adjourned to three o' clock, P˙ M˙

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3 ho˙ P˙ M˙, January 3, 1776.

The Committee met pursuant to adjournment.

Present: Pierre VanCortlandt, Esq˙, Chairman, Colonel McDougall, Mr˙ Scott, Mr˙ Sands, Mr˙ Brewster, Mr˙ Clarke, Mr˙ Spooner.