The two Chevaux-de-frise prepared for stopping the channel, to be immediately moved in proper stations

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In Committee of Safety, June 15, 1776.

Present: George Clymer, Chairman, Samuel Howell, Owen Biddle, Samuel Hunter, Alexander Wilcocks, George Gray, Joseph Parker, Daniel Roberdeau, John Nixon, Robert White, Thomas Wharton, Jun˙, George Ross.

Robert Towers, Commissary, was directed to deliver Captain Hazlewood sixty seven or eight-inch Shells for the use of the Fire Brigantine.

Resolved, That Captain Hazlewood be desired to send down the Fire Brig to be stationed near Fort Island, and that he apply to the Commanding Officer of the Fleet for a proper Guard, to be constantly kept on board her.

The Board having entered into an engagement with Mr˙ Joshua Tomlinson for a number of Gun-barrels, and an agreement to advance him the sum of £200, as will more fully appear by his Bond executed the 13th instant, by order of the Board an Order was drawn on John Nixon, Esq˙, and others, the Committee of Accounts, for £100, in favour of said Tomlinson, being a part of the said £200.

Resolved, That the two Chevaux-de-frise prepared for stopping the Channel, be immediately ballasted and moored in proper stations: that is, one of them just above the lowest Buoy and the other at the middle Buoy, and that Captain Hazlewood and Captain Cobourn apply for necessary assistance to the Commanding Officer of the Fleet, so as to stop the passage effectually upon any emergency, and on orders for that purpose from this Board; and that the said Captain Hazlewood proceed down to the Chevaux-de-frise and assist Captain Cobourn in fixing them in their stations without any delay.

Upon application of Samuel Hunter, Esq˙, for a quantity of Lead and Powder for the use of Northumberland County, by order of the Board Robert Towers, Commissary, was directed to deliver to Mr˙ Hunter two hundred and fifty pounds Powder and five hundred pounds of Lead.