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District Committees for the City and Liberties of Philadelphia

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In Committee, August 19, 1775.

The Committee appointed to settle the District Committees report the following division as the most convenient and proper, viz:

DISTRICT NO˙ 1.

Northern Liberties.

John Dickinson,
John Britton,
Thomas Britton,
Charles Thomson,
Joseph Copperthwaite,
John Williams,
Isaac Coates,
William Coates,
John Brown,
William Masters,
Thomas Hopkins,
George Leib

DISTRICT NO˙ 2.

From the south side of Vine-street to the north side of Arch-street.

Samuel Massey,
William Heysham,
Jacob Shriner,
William Rush,
Christ Marshall,
Francis Wade,
James Irvine,
Paul Engle,
John Linnington,
John Cox,
Frederick Kuhl,
Christopher Pechin,
Jacob Morgan,
James Ash,
Nathaniel Brown,
George Schlosser,
Nicholas Hicks,
Joseph Watkins, Jr.

DISTRICT NO˙ 3.

From the south side of Arch-street to the north side of Chesnut-street.

Thomas Lawrence,
Samuel Mifflin,
John Patton,
John Benezet,
Moore Furman,
William Ball,
Philip Boehm,
Christopher Ludwig,
David Potts,
Owen Biddle,
William Bradford,
Isaac Howell,
Richard Bache,
Benjamin Harbison,
William Wister,
John Bayard,
Joseph Parker,

DISTRICT NO˙ 4.

From the south side of Chesnut-street to the north side of Spruce-street.

Andrew Caldwell,
Benjamin Franklin,
Richard Willing,
Thomas Leech,
John Allen,
James Mease,
Benjamin Marshall,
Charles Massey,
James Bead,
John Shee,
Thomas Mifflin,
Timothy Matlack,
Jacob Barge,
Thomas Barclay,
Joseph Dean,
Thomas Prior,
Lambert Cadwalader,

DISTRICT NO˙ 5.

From the south side of Spruce-street to the north side of South-street.

John Wilcox,
Thomas Affleck,
Robert Morris,
Sharpe Delaney,
Joseph Wetherill,
James Cresson,
Samuel Morris, Jun˙,
Thos˙ Cuthbert, Sen˙,
Benjamin Loxley,
William Jackson,
John Cadwalader,
Joseph Moulder,
John Purviance,
Francis Gurney,
Daniel Joy,
James Millegan,
Thomas Wharton, Jr.,

DISTRICT NO˙ 6.

Southwark.

Richard Dennis,
Joseph Huddle,
Benjamin Jones,
Joseph Blewer,
Thomas Casdrop,
Samuel Moore,
Joseph Marsh,
Silas Engles,
Charles Alexander,
John Duche,
John William Annis,
William Drewry

Signed by order of the Committee:

TIMOTHY MATLACK.

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