In Committee of Safety
Philad'a, 27th Jan'y, 1776.
Doct'r [John] Smith brought to this City and confined by order of [the Continental] Congress, as a person inimical to the Liberties of America, was this day brought before this Board, and being examined, and found, from his own confession, to have acted an unfriendly part in the present dispute between Great Britain and these Colonies, was remanded to Gaol, & there to remain 'till the further orders of this Board or the Congress.
1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, X, 469.