[Phildelphia] Friday, February 23, 1776
Resolved, That the letter of Christopher Leffingwell, dated 29 November, 1775, with sundry papers relating to the cargo of the Brig Nancy, be referred to a committee of three. 2
The members chosen, Mr. [George] Wythe, Mr. [Samuel] Huntington, and Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry.
Resolved, That the Secret Committee be empowered for the purpose of Procuring arms and ammunition, to export produce of these colonies, equal to the amount of that by them exported in two vessels lately taken by the enemy.
1. Ford, ed., JCC, IV, 167-71.
2. Leffingwell's letter, from Norwich, Connecticut, was read in Congress December 12, 1775. It related to a cargo of molasses taken out of the brig Nancy, a Tory vessel seized by Captain Robert Niles in Stonington harbor. The Nancy, Captain Thomas Davis, was owned by Joshua Winslow of Boston.