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The Committee of safety have thought it highly necessary that you should be acquainted with the situation of the magazine at Lewestown, to exert your influence for an immediate supply of powder and lead; which, I suppose, must be by land, as the Roebuck and Liverpool will probably continue as high up the river as Reedy Island; this morning they are in the bite below New Castle, and though the row...
Date: 10 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
I was yesterday put upon a committee 2 that is to meet every evening at six o'clock, which may be obliged to sit regularly for ten days to come, and as I am considered a great absentee hitherto, I must attend constantly for awhile.
Date: 15 December 1775
Volume: Volume 3
. . . As to Cloathing I have heretofore represented to your Excellency that it's Manufacture within the State always was and still is inconsiderable. We lost many of our small Stocks of Sheep by the British Plunderers, and the last Year's Crop of Flax failed very generally. Fortune threw some Cloths in our way lately that will be sufficient for more than our Battalion Consists of at present, if...
Date: 5 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11