In Committee of Safety.
Philad'a, 29th Jan'y, 1776.
Upon application of Major [John] Bayard for permission to employ a Pilot and Pilot Boat, to cruise of[f] the Capes of Delaware, for a Ship with arms and ammunition bound to this port,
By order of the Board, the Chairman wrote to Mr. Henry Fisher, directing him to furnish Mr. Nathaniel Rumsey with a Pilot & Boat for the above mentioned purpose.
Lt. Cammeron [Allen Cameron] taken with Mr. Connolly, and confined by order of Congress, as a person inimical to the Liberties of America, was this day brought before this Board, and being examined, and found to have acted an inimical part in the present dispute between Great Britain and these Colonies, was remanded to Gaol & there to remain 'till the further order of Congress and this Board.