[Philadelphia] Saturday 27 January ー Letters from Gen. Washington Ld Stirling and others, my Lord has taken a Transport at Sandy Hook 2 and 2 more Vessels are taken by one of the Massachusetts armed Ships 3... the Matter of inlisting Apprentices and small Debtors was committed to [Thomas] McKean, [Robert Treat] Paine & myself ー A Petn was read & committed, from Keppele [Henry Kepple] & [John] Steinmetz prayg Recompence for a Ship & Cargo carried into Boston to the Value of £5000 & upwards ー Mr Juge of Maryland permitted to export Produce from that Colony in Return for Canvass imported
1. Richard Smith's Diary, LC.
2. The transport Blue Mountain Valley.
3. The prizes were the Friends and Sukey. See Jonathan Jackson to the Massachusetts Council, January 16, 1776, and the Essex Journal, Newburyport, January 19, 1776.
