Captain Nicholas Biddle's Account with the Continental Naval Committee, January 19, 1776

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[Philadelphia, January 19, 1776]²

Naval Committee of Congress Dr

to Nicholas Biddle

To Cash paid for Officers and Seamens Board Wages as P enclosed Account³	£53 ー 15 ー 3
To a Months pay Advance to John Chiswell. James Wilson. George Kelly. John Moies. and William Adams, Seamen and Peter Miller Landsman	17 ー 10 ー 0
To Cash paid Mr [James] Josiah for his expences in Philadelphia in quest of Deserters. for 9 days	1 ー 13 ー 0
To Cash paid Mr Josiah for Boarding five Men four days in Philadelphia. and for Supper and Lodging for the Boats Crew one night.⁴	1 ー 10 ー 0
To Cash paid Leut Josiah for Horse hire and other Expences he was at in travelling from Philadelphia to Port Penn with five Seamen. as p Account	5 ー 19 ー 0
To Cash paid John Berketts for Boarding 6 Men from the 2nd to the fourth of January 1776	10 ー 0
To Cash paid (for wages due) to Mr William Moran 1st Mate	6 ー 10 ー 0
To a Months Advance paid to John Mergeson 3rd Mate	3 ー 15 ー 0
To Cash paid for an Arm Chest	1 ー 05 ー 0
	92 ー 7 ー 3
Naval Comittee Cr
By Cash Received of Silas Deane Esqr	88 ー 10 ー 0
By Cash Leut Josiah Received from Silas Deane Esqr	4 ー 2 ー 6
	92 ー 12 ー 6
	92 ー 7 ー 3
	£ 0 ー 5 ー 3

1. Nicholas Biddle Papers, HSP.

2. As the Andrew Doria dropped down with the fleet to Reedy Island on January 17, 1776, the account, which refers to Lieutenant Josiah's traveling to Port Penn, opposite Reedy Island, would place it after that date, and approximately as given.

3. Ibid., the account of cash paid was made out by Lieutenant Josiah, and was dated January 8, 1776. It contains no details.

4. On the verso of the Josiah account the names of the five men are listed as George McKain, William Hays, James McGuire, Barnett Garland and James Evans.

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1776 January 19

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