[Philadelphia] Tuesday, June 18, 1776
A letter from the committee of safety of Pensylvania, requesting the opinion of Congress, whether persons taken on board merchants' ships and river craft, ought to be exchanged for seamen taken from the enemy's ships of war?2
Resolved, That the president inform the committee of safety that the Congress judge it improper that such an exchange should take place.
Resolved, That Mr. [John] Rodgers, be appointed a member of the marine committee.3
1. Ford, ed., JCC, V, 495, 460, 463.
2. Hancock so advised the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety in a letter of this date. John Hancock Papers, LC.
3. John Rodgers of Maryland replaced William Paca who was absent.
