Benjamin Franklin Papers

The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Provincial Congress, 26 August 1775: résumé

The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Provincial Congress

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<Philadelphia, August 26, 1775: A small additional supply of gunpowder has arrived this morning, and we have ordered a ton shipped immediately according as you requested.5 We are getting our militia in order as fast as possible.6 Signed by Franklin as president.>

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

5. On Aug. 16, above. The powder was sent but not delivered, for BF took on himself to countermand the order; see his letter to Livingston below, Aug. 29, 1775.

6. As the congress had urged in its letter above, Aug. 18.

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    The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Provincial Congress, 26 August 1775: résumé
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    Pennsylvania Committee of Safety
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    New York Provincial Congress
    Date
    26 August 1775

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    “The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Provincial Congress, 26 August 1775: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-22-02-0110. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 22, March 23, 1775, through October 27, 1776, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London:: Yale University Press, 1982, p. 181.]

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