Lieutenants for the four Battalions chosen

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Saturday, January 6, 1776.

In Committee of Safety: Present —

George Clymer, Chairman, Samuel Morris, Jun˙, Nicholas Fairlamb, John Montgomery, James Mease, Samuel Miles, Thomas Wharton, Jun˙, Robert White, Alexander Wilcocks, Joseph Reed, Daniel Roberdeau, Henry Wynkoop, George Gray, James Biddle, Owen Biddle, Edward Biddle, John Nixon, Anthony Wayne, Francis Johnson, Samuel Howell, John Cadwallader,

Pursuant to a Resolution of Congress and this Board, this Committee proceeded to the choice of a number of gentlemen, to be appointed as Lieutenants to the four Battalions now to be raised, when the following persons were agreed upon, and to rank agreeably to the numbers affixed to their names, viz:

Joseph Potts,
John Richardson,
Alexander Johnston,
Thos˙ Lloyd Moore,
Joseph Davenport,
John Chilton,
Evan Edwards,
John Bankson,
Benj˙ Bartholomew,
Matthew Knox,
James R˙ Reid,
Samuel Moore,
James Christie,
John Lawrence,
John Christie,
John Williamson,
George Tudor,
John Gross,
John David Waelpper,
Robert Wilkins,
Dan' l Broadhead, Jr˙,
John Morgan,
Samuel Smith,
Andrew Kechlin,
Adam Bettin,
William Davidson,
William Bird,
Michael Kimmle,
John Priestly,
Charles Phile,
Michael Hoofnagle,
John Helm.