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In Committee of Safety, June 19, 1776.
Present: Alexander Wilcocks, Chairman, Daniel Roberdeau, Samuel Howell, John Cadivallader, Joseph Parker, Thomas Wharton, Jun˙, Robert White, John Nixon, George Clymer.
By order of the Board an Order was drawn on John Nixon, Esq˙, and others, the Committee of Accounts, for £45 8s˙ 6d˙, being the amount of fifteen Fire-locks purchased by him in Bucks County; which is directed to be charged to the account of Fire-locks purchased for account of Congress.
Upon application of John Vandegrift for some Powder for proving the Fire-locks making in Bucks County, by order of the Board Robert Towers, Commissary, was directed to deliver six pounds of Powder for the uses aforesaid.
Mr˙ Abraham Kinsey, Tenant at Hog-Island, was informed by the Committee of the necessity of laying that Island under water at the near approach of the enemy; and, at the same time, was assured that whatever injury he should sustain in consequence would be hereafter made good to him by the publick.
Resolved, That Mr˙ Nixon be requested to lend this Board £2,000 of the money in his hands belonging to Congress.
By order of the Board an Order was drawn on John Nixon, Esq˙, and others, the Committee of Accounts, for £61 4s˙ 3d˙, being the amount of Lead, Saltpetre, &c˙, paid for by him.
Resolved, That Mr˙ Morris be requested to apply to Congress for the loan of 100,000 Dollars.
By order of the Board Robert Towers, Commissary, was directed to deliver Bidwell & Walter all the Crude Sulphur now in store, as he may want it, for refining, taking receipts for the quantity he may deliver.
Resolved, That the Delegates in this Province in Congress be requested to inform Congress that their recommendation relative to forming the Flying-Camp was not carried into execution by the Assembly, and desire to be informed whether it is their intention that this Board should take upon them the execution of the same.
A few days since, this Board wrote to Congress in respect to the exchange of Prisoners with the Commander of the
The Delegates of this Province requested to ascertain from the Congress whether it is their intention that the Committee of Safety shall proceed to form the Flying Camp
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Liverpool, man-of-war; in answer to which the President of Congress, in his letter of the 18th instant, informs this Board that Congress judges it improper to exchange men taken in the merchant ships and river crafts for seamen taken from the enemy' s ships.