1Advertisement by the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety, 28 July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette , August 2, 1775. Early in May the voluntary organizations of associators took form in Pennsylvania, and by the end of June the Assembly endorsed them, promised to arm and pay them, and created the committee of safety to supervise the working of the new system. On July 18 Congress embodied in a series of resolutions a plan for organizing, supplying, and...