Every Boatswain,	8 dollars per mouth.
Every Cook,	6     “             “
Every Drummer,	6     “             “
Every Private,	6     “             “
Every Boy,	4     “             “

Resolved, That every Man, Officers and Privates, employed in the Armed Boats, shall have the following weekly allowance of Provisions and Rum, or Malt Beer:

Seven pounds of Bread per week, or six pounds of Flour; ten pounds of Beef, Mutton, or Pork; the value of six Pence per week in Roots and Vegetables; Salt and Vinegar; three pints and a half of Rum, or Beer in proportion.

Saturday, September 2, 1775.

At a meeting of the Committee of Safety: Present—

Robert Morris, President pro tem., Daniel Roberdeau, George Ross, George Gray, Owen Biddle, Thomas Wharton, Junior, William Edmonds, Andrew Allen, Robert White.

Mr. Robert Morris is desired to pay to Captain Ord and Mr. George Thompson at the rate of fifteen Pounds per hundred for Powder they imported, and at the rate of four Pounds per hundred more, as an encouragement for the importation of Gunpowder; which encouragement is agreeable to a Resolve of the Committee for the City and Liberties.

Upon application of General Washington, as per Letter from Mr. Joseph Reed, dated Camp at Cambridge, August 24, 1775, for a supply of Gunpowder,

Resolved, That two tons of Gunpowder be immediately sent to his Excellency General Washington, and that William Jordan go with and take proper care of the Powder, until he has directions from the General.

That Robert Towers deliver the said Powder to Mr. Robert Erwin, who is to provide Wagons for the carriage of the same.

Agreeable to a Resolve of the 10th instant, Dr. Franklin wrote to General Schuyler, to know if any Lead could be had, for the use of this Province, out of a quantity that was at Ticonderoga. The General, in his Letter of the 23d of August, acquaints this Board that he will convey a considerable quantity of Lead immediately to this City.

Resolved, That Mr. Thomas Houston be appointed a Lieutenant on board one of the Armed Boats.

Monday, September 4, 1775.

At a meeting of the Committee of Safety: Present—

Daniel Roberdeau, Owen Biddle, John Cadwallader, Thomas Wharton, Junior, Robert White, George Ross, George Gray.

Fifty of the Rules and Regulations for the Associators, and the same number of the Articles of the Association, to be sent to the Colonels of the different Battalions in this Province.

Delivered to Colonel Dickinson, fifty of the Articles of Association and Precedency.

Delivered to Col. Hamilton, fifty of each of the above, per George Gray.

Delivered to Col. Miles, fifty of each of the above.

Tuesday, September 5, 1775.

At a meeting of the Committee of Safety: Present only three Members—

Daniel Roberdeau, Thomas Wharton, Junior, Robert White.

Robert Towers, Commissary, reports his having received and stored at the State House the following articles, viz:

Nine hundred and thirty-eight 18-pound Round Shot; twenty-four 24-pound Round Shot; twenty 32-pound Round Shot—received from George Taylor.

Sixty-six pounds Saltpetre, received from Mrs. Groves.

And reports his having delivered 4,012 pounds Gunpowder to Robert Erwin; which went yesterday in two Wagons, under the care of William Jordan, for General Washington, at the Camp in Cambridge.

Wednesday, September 6, 1775.

At a meeting of the Committee of Safety: Present— Benjamin Franklin, Owen Biddle, Anthony Wayne, Daniel Roberdeau, William Edmonds, Henry Wynkoop, John Cadwallader, George Gray, George Ross.

Mr. Clement Biddle made proposals to this Board to furnish the Officers and Men to be employed on board the Armed Boats with Provisions and Rum, or Beer in lieu of Rum, agreeable to the quality and quantity allowed them by a Resolve of this Board the 1st instant, at the rate of ten Pence half-penny per Ration, as one day’s allowance for a man.

Resolved, That this Board accept the proposal of Mr. Biddle, and agree that he be appointed to furnish the Provisions and Rum, agreeable to the said Resolve, at the said rate of ten Pence half-penny per Ration.

Rowley Godfrey, Lieutenant of the Forty-Eighth Regiment of Foot, having come hither with an intention of joining his Regiment, quartered in the Island of Granada, this Committee thought proper that he should sign the following Parole, which he accordingly did:

“I, Rowley Godfrey, Lieutenant of the Forty-Eighth Regiment, now quartered in the Island of Granada, a prisoner in the power of the Committee of Safety of the Province of Pennsylvania, and being kindly treated and protected by them, and enlarged on parole, do hereby solemnly promise and engage, on the honour of a soldier and a gentleman, that I will not bear arms against the American United Colonies, in any manner whatever, for the space of twelve months, or until I may be exchanged; nor will I, during that time, take any measures to give intelligence to General Gage, or the British Ministry, or to any person or persons whatever, relative to American affairs. Also, in case this my parole is not accepted in exchange for any officer of equal rank in the American service who may be taken prisoner by the British Troops, I do hereby, in any such case, on notice, promise to repair to and give myself up to the said Committee of Safety, as a prisoner.

“R. GODFREY, Lieut. 48th Reg’t.

“Philadelphia, September 7, 1775.”

Lieutenant Godfrey was furnished with a copy of the above.

Thursday, September 7, 1775.

In Committee of Safety: Present—

Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Roberdeau, Owen Biddle, John Cadwallader, Henry Wynkoop, Anthony Wayne.

Mr. Owen Biddle is desired to procure a Rifle that will carry a half-pound Ball, with a Telescope Sight, and to get repaired a Rifle produced by Colonel Wayne.

The Board being informed, by inquiry of the Hon. Peyton Randolph, Esq., that the application of Colonel George Slaughter for leave to purchase Gunpowder, for the use of the New Settlement in Virginia, on Kentucky, is founded in necessity, for the protection of a number of families; they not being able to furnish themselves elsewhere, have agreed to permit their purchasing one hundred pounds weight at Yorktown, in this Province, if the Committee of that place think fit to spare the same.

The above Minute was signed by the President, and Colonel Slaughter furnished therewith.

Friday, September 8, 1775.

At a meeting of the Committee of Safety: Present—

Robert Morris, President pro tem., Daniel Roberdeau, John Cadwallader, Thomas Wharton, Junior, Anthony Wayne, Andrew Allen, Richard Reiley.

Major George Ethrington having come here with an intention, as he says, of going to England, this Board thought proper to take the following Parole of him:

“I, George Ethrington, Major of the Second Battalion of His Majesty’s Royal American Regiment, a prisoner in the power of the Committee of Safety for the Province of Pennsylvania, and, being kindly treated and protected by them, and enlarged on parole, do hereby solemnly promise and engage, on the honour of a soldier and gentleman, that I will not bear arms against the American United Colonies, in any manner whatever, for the space of twelve months, or until I may be exchanged; nor will I, during that time, take any measures to give intelligence to General Gage, or the British Ministry, or to any person or persons whatever,