[Philadelphia] July 6th, 1775
The Committee, agreeable to the 1st resolve of the 4th inst., went to Red Bank Mud or Fort Island, & viewed them and several parts of the River, and find the Channel from the Fort to the Barr to be 150 fathom or thereabouts. And Report that it is at present impracticable to lay a Boom across that part of the River.
Resolved, That Mess. Robert White & Ow[e]n Biddle be a Committee for the Construction of Boats & Machines for the defence of the River, and it is Recommended to them to employ John Wharton, Joseph Marsh, Emanuel Eyres, Jacob Miller & Thomas David & Joseph Govett.
