[In Committee of Safety, Philadelphia] [June 13, 1776]2
Sir, Your Letter of yesterday's date reached the Committee in about 21 hours, and is laid before Congress this morning for their consideration of the several matters you have recommended for the security of the Trade.
The Committee have conferred with Capts [William] Richards and [Nathaniel] Falconer about the Difficulty you have found in complying with the order not to employ Pilots in the Alarm Boat in the Bay, and as they know the Sentiments of the Committee upon that Subject, you are requested to regulate your conduct therein by the Directions they shall give you.3
1. Hazard, et al., eds., Pennsylvania Archives, 1st series, IV, 743.
2. While the letter is undated; its contents and the actions of Congress on June 13, provide the necessary date, although the letter from Henry Fisher was dated June 11, 1776.
3. These gentlemen, along with Captain Thomas Read, had been impowered by the Committee of Safety, on March 9, 1776, to fix signals for giving the alarm at Cape Henlopen, and establishing alarm posts along the Delaware.
