[Philadelphia] 6 April 1776
[Extract]
Sir The committee [of Safety] requests you would solicit the honble. Congress to spare to this Province Ten or fifteen of the largest Cannon that have been taken at the Island of [New] Providence As we apprehend they will be wanted for the protection of this City before a Supply can be otherwise obtain'd 2
We also send a Letter received by Express from Henry Fisher that the Congress may take such order for bringing up Lt.[George] Ball as they shall judge fit.3
1. Rare American Historical Autographs. The Collection of Frederick S. Peck (Philadelphia, 1947), No. 8.
2. News of the cannon taken at New Providence had been brought by the Continental schooner Wasp arriving April 4, 1776.
3. See Henry Fisher's letter of April 5, 1776.
