[Philadelphia] December 31st, 1776.
Mr. [John Maxwell] Nesbitt was directed to pay Dunn & Hale £ 5 4 0, for 208 feet of oars for the floating Battery Putnam.
Mr. Nesbitt was directed to pay Robert Fitzgerald £ 11 2 0, for sundries for Armed Schooner Delaware, to be charged to this State, & £ 5 9 4 for port Fire Stocks, &ca., to be charged to Congress.
1. Pennsylvania Colonial Records, XI, 68, 69.
