August 26th

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Saturday, August 26, 1775.

At a meeting of the Committee of Safety: Present —

Benjamin Franklin, Owen Biddle, George Gray, Daniel Roberdeau, John Dickinson, Andrew Allen, Robert White, John Cadwallader, Thomas Wharton, Jun˙:

Upon application of the Provincial Congress of New York for a quantity of Gunpowder,

Resolved, That this Board send immediately, on account of said Congress, twenty hundred pounds of Gunpowder, in tight casks, and that Robert Erwin procure a Wagon to transport the same to Newark, in New-Jersey; and that Mr˙ Owen Biddle see this done.

Resolved, That it be recommended to the First Battalion to receive Captain Masters' s Company as their youngest Company, until a new Battalion can be formed.

That it be recommended to the Second Battalion to receive Captain Semple' s Company as their youngest Company, until a new Battalion can be formed.

That it be recommended to the Light-Infantry Company, late of the Third Battalion, to join the said Battalion; and to the Battalion to receive the said Company.

And as Captain Morgan has not yet had a chance by lot for determining his rank, it is recommended that nine papers, numbered from one to nine, be rolled up, and that Captain Morgan drawing one of them, the Captain whose number he so draws, and all below him, rank below Captain Morgan.

That it be also recommended to the Third Battalion to receive Captain Henderson' s Company as their youngest Company, until a new Battalion can be formed.

A copy of these Resolves were delivered to the different City and Liberties Battalions.