At a Meeting of the Committee of Safety.

Resolved, That the Prisoners confined by this Board, agreeable to the directions of Congress, be removed to the New Gaol, and that the following order be delivered:

In Committee of Safety.

Philad'a, 16th Dec'r, 1775.

You are hereby required to conduct the Soldiers & the three Sailors from Rhoad Island, ² now Prisoners in your Gaol, to the New Gaol in this City, and there deliver them into the Custody of Mr. Thomas Apty.

Sign'd by order. Jno. Nixon, Chair'n.

To Thomas Dewees, Keeper of the Gaol of Philad'a County.