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9 August., 9 August 1776

9 August.

9 August. The congress resolved that the Secret Committee supply the Delaware battalion with those articles in the Committee’s possession thought necessary by the Board of War and that it also send 30,000 flints to General Washington (JCC description begins Worthington C. Ford and others, eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, Washington, 1904–1937; 34 vols. description ends , 5:640; Note: The report for this date was tabled, but it is likely that the resolutions immediately following it proceeded from that report).

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