In Council of Safety,
[Philadelphia] September 14th, 1776.
Resolved, hat Capt. [Joseph] Blewer & Mr. [Francis] Gurney be Empowered to contract with some person or persons to fill up & Compleat the Peers sunk in the Chanel of the River Delaware, near fort Island, and fix the Chain for stoping the Navigation upon an Immergency.
1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, X, 717, 718.