In Committee of Safety, [Philadelphia] 15th April, 1776.
Capt. Pitt has permission from this Board to hire any Seamen Confined in Gaol by order of this Committee. Upon application of Colo. Roberdeau for Pilots to carry down the Privateers' Sloops Congress & Chance. Resolved, That a Pilot be allowed the Sloop Congress, provided the Captain of her will Promise and engage to go down the Cape May Channel and land his Pilot there.
1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, X, 542.
