Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, January 8, 1776

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Monday, January 8, 1776.

In Committee of Safety: Present — John Nixon, Chairman, Daniel Roberdeau, Thomas Wharton, Jun˙, Owen Biddle, James Biddle, John Montgomery, George Clymer, Samuel Howell.

Upon application of Thomas Willet, for the payment of twenty-three Firelocks, purchased by him for the use of his Company, in Colonel Bull' s Battalion, an Order was drawn on Messrs˙ Mease and Caldwell, Paymasters to said Battalion, for seventy-two pounds, six pence, for the payment of the same.