Minutes of the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, September 9, 1776

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In Council of Safety,

[Philadelphia] September 9th, 1776.

Mr. Nesbitt was directed ... to pay Doct'r James Dunlap £16 13 6, for Medicines, &ca., for the use of the Fleet.

An order was given for Rob't Jewell, Esq'r, was authorized & Required to receive the Bodies of Messrs. James Forrest, Thomas Byrn & Shanks into his Custody, they being Prisoners of War, Taken by Capt. Isaiah Robinson of the Armed Sloop Sachem²

Mr. Nesbitt was directed to pay Sam'l Davison, late Commodore of the Fleet, his wages to this day.

1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, X, 713, 714.

2. Josiah Bartlett to John Langdon, September 9:

Yesterday was sent in here by the Sachem continental vessel, a brig [Three Friends] bound from Antigua to the British Army; She mounted six guns and fought obstinately. killed 3 men on board the Sachem ー her loading said to be rum and sugar.

William Whipple Papers, Force Transcripts, I, 217, LC.

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1776 September 9

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Pennsylvania Council of Safety

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Philadelphia

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American Theatre from September 1, 1776, to October 31, 1776

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