Recommendation of the Committee of Safety

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In Committee of Safety, Philadelphia, January 3, 1776.

Pursuant to a Resolution of Congress, and this Board, this Committee proceeded to the choice of a number of gentlemen, to be recommended to Congress as proper persons to be appointed Field-Officers for the four Battalions now to be raised, when the following gentlemen were agreed upon, and now recommended to the honourable Congress, as suitable to fill the offices of Majors, viz: George Nagle, Joseph Wood, Henry Bicker, Nicholas Haussiger, Caleb Parry, John Beatty, John Macpherson, James Ross.

Extract from the Minutes:

WILLIAM GOVETT, Secretary.