[Philadelphia] October 11th.
The following is a List of Military Stores agreed to by the Committee of Safety for each of the armed Boats; and the Commissary is directed to provide each of them accordingly, but if the full quantity of each article cannot be obtained, he is to furnish each Boat an equal proportion of what can be got.
Resolved, As it is necessary to keep the knowledge of the passage through the Chevaux De Frize as secret as possible, That the ten following Pilots be the only Persons permitted to Pilot Vessells through the said passage, And between this City and Chester, viz't:
1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, X, 362-363.