Colonels for the four Battalions nominated

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Tuesday, January 2, 1776.

In Committee of Safety: Present — Benj' n Franklin, Robert Morris, George Gray, James Mease, George Clymer, John Cadwallader, Joseph Reed, John Nixon, Owen Biddle, Andrew Allen, Nicholas Fairlamb, James Biddle, Samuel Miles, Samuel Morris, Robert White, Alexander Wilcocks, Francis Johnson, Henry Wynkoop, Anthony Wayne, Thomas Wharton, Daniel Roberdeau, Samuel Howell, Edward Biddle.

Resolved, That the Board will recommend to the Congress two persons for each Field-Officer, if the appliers will admit, and that the choice be made by ballot.

Pursuant to a Resolution of Congress and this Board, this Committee proceeded to the choice of a number of gentlemen, to be recommended to the Congress as proper persons to be appointed Colonels for the four Battalions as now to be raised, when the following gentlemen were agreed upon, and are now recommended to the honourable Congress as suitable to fill the offices of Colonels, viz:

Anthony Wayne, — 23 votes — 4th Battalion.
John Shee, — 23 votes — 3d Battalion.
Arthur St˙ Clair, — 23 votes — 2d Battalion.
Robert Magau, — 20 votes — 5th Battalion.
John Atlee, — 17 votes.
Robert Cadwallader, — 15 votes.
Daniel Broadhead, — 14 votes.
Francis Johnson, — 10 votes.