[Philadelphia] Wednesday, October 18, 1775
On motion made, Resolved, That a just and well authenticated account of the hostilities committed by the ministerial troops and navy in America since last March, be collected, with proper evidence of the truth of the facts related, the number and value of the buildings destroyed by them, also the number and value of the vessels inward and outward bound, which have been seized by them since that period, as near as the number and value can be ascertained; also the stock taken by them from different parts of the Continent.2
That a Committee of three be appointed for this purpose.
The members chosen, Mr [Silas] Deane, Mr John Adams, and Mr [George] Wythe.
1. Ford, ed., JCC, III, 298, 299.
2. Resolution printed in the Pennsylvania Packet, Philadelphia, November 6, 1775, with the comment, "The above committee request the Printers of the several public papers in the United Colonies to insert the above for three or four weeks successively, and all persons possessed of any facts relative to, or that may throw light on the above subject, to transmit the same to them as early as possible."
