The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the New
York Provincial Congress
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 huge quantity had arrived in New
Jersey from South Carolina and been forwarded to him, so that
our supply will be unnecessary. It has not in all likelihood gone
beyond Albany and might, if you apply to him, be brought back
for your use. Signed by Franklin as president.>
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