In Committee of Safety.
Philad'a, 25th Jan'y, 1776.
The Committee of Safety having resolved to increase the Number of Men in the pay of, and for the defence of this Province, Captain [Thomas] Proctor is hereby directed to enlist seventy Voluntiers, who are to be instructed principally in the use and management of Artillery, but to be embodied in such manner, and employed occasionally upon such service as may be hereafter determined by the said Committee.
1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, X, 467.