1Four Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress to the Philadelphia Committee of Inspection and Observation, 3[-5?] July 1775 (Franklin Papers)
DS : Historical Society of Pennsylvania Philip Skene had made a protracted visit to England and Ireland. During it he had furnished information to the ministry, and been rewarded with appointments as inspector of crown lands and lieutenant governor of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. When he returned to America he landed in Philadelphia, where he was promptly arrested on suspicion that Whitehall...