The Council met Philadelphia, Saturday, July 11, 1778
Present. honble. George Bryan, Esqr. Vice President. [John] Mackay, Esq". John Hambright, Esqr. Jonathan Boge Esqr. & James Read, Esqr.
Capt Hugh Montgomery recommended Catherine Murphy, Mary Roan, & Lydia Leonard, Wives of Privates on board the Gallies,1 as being in great distress for want of Provisions; thereupon Ordered, That it be recommended the Navy board to give the said three Women such temporary relief as their immediate necessity may require, until some regulations can be adopted respecting them—
D, PHarH, RG 27, Minute Books of the Supreme Executive Council, vol. 6: 317.
1. The privates were probably John Murphy, James Rowan, and Patrick Leonard. Pennslvania Archives, 2d ser. 1: 265, 268, 264.