1The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to a Commissioner and Three Assessors of Bucks County, 8 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg <August 8, 1775: In answer to your letter of July 29 the committee directs you to provide 300 stand of arms and accoutrements as voted by the Assembly. We will provide you with patterns, which you will take care to have followed in the manufacture; we will settle your accounts and have the treasurer pay you. If any opposition develops, inform us and...
2The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the Albany Committee, 10 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Copy: New York Public Library <Philadelphia, August 10, 1775: You will receive herewith 2400 pounds of gunpowder, to be forwarded to General Schuyler at the earliest opportunity. We have heard that a great and “superfluous” quantity of lead, an article much needed here, was captured at Ticonderoga. If you have it, and can load a parcel of it on the returning wagon, we shall be obliged and...
3The New York Provincial Congress to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 16 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Text printed in Samuel Hazard et al. , eds., Pennsylvania Archives (first series; 12 vols., Philadelphia, 1852–56), IV , 643–4. <New York, August 16, 1775: A ship we sent for powder some three months ago has not returned, and our small stock is exhausted by supplying the camp before Boston with 1655 pounds and Ticonderoga with 300; all we could procure in this city has gone to eastern Long...
4The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Committee of Safety, 17 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
LS : New York State Library, Albany <August 17, 1775: We request you to receive and forward to Washington’s camp, as we have promised to do, the baggage of Major French and two other British officers on parole. We will pay the charges if the Major has already passed through New York; otherwise he will. Signed by Franklin for the committee.> The MS has been through a fire, and part of each line...
5The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to George Washington, 17 August 1775 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Library of Congress The Committee of Safety for this City and Province, being informed on saturday last, that a Ship from Cork had come up to Gloucester with some passengers, Officers of the Ministerial Army, and a Quantity of Cloathing for that Army at Boston, immediately sent down Capt: Bradford with thirty Men to take those Officers prisoners, and at the same time an Armed Boat, to...
6The New York Provincial Congress to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 17 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Text printed in Samuel Hazard et al. , eds., Pennsylvania Archives (first series; 12 vols., Philadelphia, 1852–56), IV , 644 <New York, August 17, 1775: The intelligence contained in the enclosed paragraph of a letter from General Washington should be communicated to the various Pennsylvania committees. Addressed to Franklin and the other members of the committee and signed by P. V. B....
7To George Washington from the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 17 August 1775 (Washington Papers)
The Committee of Safety for this City & Province, being informed on saturday last, that a Ship from Cork had come up to Gloucester with some passengers, Officers of the Ministerial Army, and a quantity of Cloathing for that Army at Boston, immediately sent down Capt. Bradford with thirty Men to take those officers prisoners, and at the same time an Armed Boat, to bring up the Cloathing, both...
8The New York Provincial Congress to the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 18 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
Text printed in Samuel Hazard et al. , eds., Pennsylvania Archives (first series; 12 vols., Philadelphia, 1852–56), IV , 645–6. <New York August 18, 1775: Reconsidering the paragraph of General Washington’s letter that we forwarded yesterday has given us too much reason to think that the British troops are bound for New York. No pains should be spared to make the city as strong as possible,...
9The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Provincial Congress, 19 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
LS : New York State Library; copy: Harvard University Library <Philadelphia, [August 19, 1775]: We have received your request for gunpowder. After we had furnished all we could spare to the army and neighboring colonies, we heard from General Schuyler that he was in need and sent him 2200 pounds in care of the Albany committee. We did not then know, as he probably did not when he wrote, that a...
10The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New York Provincial Congress, 21 August 1775: résumé (Franklin Papers)
LS : New York State Library, Albany <Philadelphia, August 21, 1775: We are obliged for the intelligence from General Washington and will communicate it to the committees down the river. “As possibly the Enemy may think of calling upon us,” we must keep what little powder we have; but we will readily spare you part of any fresh supplies that arrive. Signed by Franklin as president.> In the...