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Six hundred Pounds advanced on account of the Continental Frigates building at Poughkeepsie

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Captain Samuel Tudor, one of the Superintendents of the building the Continental Frigates at Poughkeepsie, informed the Committee of Safety that the said Superintendents

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have lately received a raft of timber for which they are indebted, and daily expect some other rafts of timber for which to pay ready money; that the said Superintendents have also some other accounts to discharge, are at present destitute of money, and cannot obtain a supply from the Treasurer of the Marine Committee; Mr˙ Tudor therefore, on behalf of the said Superintendents, requested an advance or a loan of £600.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of this State advance to Captain Samuel Tudor, as one of the Superintendents, on his account, say receipt, the sum of £600, and charge the same to Continental account.

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