Lieutenants and Ensigns for the New Battalion

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The House proceeded in the choice and nomination of Officers for the new Battalion to be raised in this Province, when Benjamin Davis, Samuel Watson, Jacob Ashmend, Peter Hughes, Adam Hubley, John Reece, Frederick Blankenburg, and Richard Standley, were appointed Lieutenants in the said Battalion, and recommended to the Continental Congress to be commissioned accordingly.

Upon motion, the Order of the House to resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole House on this day, was again read, and further postponed till ten o' clock, to-morrow morning.

The House then adjourned to three o' clock, P˙ M.

The House took into consideration the several applications produced at the table for Ensigns' Commissions in the new Battalion, and having examined the respective vouchers of the candidates,

Resolved, That Roger Sterner, Philip Clumburg, Jun˙, Jacob Zeigler, George Jenkins, Christian Staddle, Thomas Ryerson, William Moore, and Amos Wilkinson, be, and they are hereby appointed Ensigns in the said Battalion, and recommended to the honourable Continental Congress to be commissioned accordingly.