Philadelphia January 29, 1776
[Extract]
The members your Marine Committee gave me an order on the Treasurer for Forty thousand Dollars, to be transmitted to you. 2 I recd the Same and for which I gave my Receipt, and Sent it with twelve thousand five hundred Dollars by Mr. [Thomas] Lynch and Mr. [Andrew] Allen to the Committee of Safety at New York. There was also one hundred 29 and 4 tenths Dollars for the Accounts you Sent to our Committee of Claimes all which I hope will come Safe to your hand.
P.S. The 12500 Dollars are to raise and forward the Regiment which our Convention is to Send to Canada....
1. Rare American Historical Autographs. The Collection of Frederick S. Peck (Philadelphia, 1947).
2. Both Floyd and Lewis were New York delegates in the Continental Congress. Lewis was in New York laying the ground work for the construction of two Continental frigates. The $40,000 was on account of the frigates.
