[Philadelphia] Friday 9 Feb. Minutes read & Letters from Gens Washn [Philip] Schuyler [David] Wooster & [Benedict] Arnold & from the N Jersey Convention & a Packet of intercepted Letters from England taken by [John] Manley inclosing private Signals of the Men of War and Transports ー 2 Copies of these Signals ordered to Admiral Hopkins & to the Delegates of each Colony... Debates ensued about disposing of the Powder arrived here in Capt [John] Craig & 2 Tons were allotted to Pennsa in Part of what has been borrowed 1 Ton to N Carolina as formerly voted and the rest left for Consid[era]t[ion]s
1. Richard Smith's Diary, LC.
2. The private signals were found in the packet thrown overboard by William Foster, master of the ship Jenny, and retrieved before it sank. This happened in December, 1775, and why it took so long to get them to Congress is not apparent. The intercepted letters probably were secured when the transports Happy Return and Norfolk were taken by Manley on January 26, 1776.