The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to the Albany
Committee
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 accountable for it.
Signed for the committee by Franklin as president.>
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