In Committee of Safety
[Philadelphia] 19th June, 1776.
Mr. Abraham Kinsey, Tenant at Hog Island, was informed by the Committee of the necessity of laying that Island under Water on the near approach of the Enemy, and at the same time, was assured that whatever Injury he should sustain in Consequence, would be hereafter made good to him by the Publick.
1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, X, 607.
