The Pennsylvania Committee of Safety to a
Commissioner and Three Assessors of Bucks County
Copy: Pennsylvania State Library, Harrisburg
<August 8, 1775: In answer to your letter of July 29 the committee
directs you to provide 300 stand of arms and accountrements as
voted by the Assembly. We will provide you with patterns, which
you will take care to have followed in the manufacture; we will
settle your accounts and have the treasurer pay you. If any opposition
develops, inform us and give us the names, so that measures
may be taken against such enemies of their country’s safety. Addressed
to Theosophilus Foulke, commissioner, and to James
Chapman, Jno. Vandegrift, and Jacob Bidleman, assessors, and
signed by Franklin as president of the committee.>
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