[Philadelphia] Tuesday, January 23, 1776
Resolved, That an Account of the late repulse our troops met with, and the loss we have sustained in the unsuccessful attempt on Quebec, be drawn up by the secretary, and laid before Congress.
The Committee of Claims reported, that there is due,
To Timothy Matlack, for cash paid by him to Archibald Dick, the expenses of a guard over a powder waggon, £6 2 9 ー 16 4/10 dollars. 2
1. Ford, ed., JCC, IV, 79, 81.
2. As Matlack was acting as secretary of the Naval Committee, the payment was probably for powder carted to Reedy Island for the use of the Continental fleet.