[Philadelphia, September 18 to October 12, 1776]
1. Mathew Irwin's Account Book, 1769-1784, LC.
2. The General Putnam, Charles Ferguson, commander, 12 guns and 90 men, was commissioned August 27, 1776, "List of Armed Vessels from Port of Philadelphia, 1776-1777..." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Philadelphia, 1902), XXVI, 146, 147.