[Philadelphia] Tuesday, December 12, 1775
On motion, Resolved, That the intercepted letters of Brooke Watson, and the invoice of the Cargo of the brig Nancy transport, taken by the schooner Lee, Captain Manly, be published. 2
A letter from Christopher Leffingwell, with sundry enclosures respecting a cargo of molasses, taken out of the brig Nancy, was received and read;
1. Ford, ed., JCC, III, 424-25.
2. The invoice was published in the Pennsylvania Evening Post that same evening. Similar listings, although less complete and unofficial, had already appeared in print. For example, the New England Chronicle, November 30 to December 7, 1775, and the Boston Gazette, December 11, 1775, contained such lists.
