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OF THE

SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

OF

PENNSYLVANIA,

FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE TERMINATION
OF THE REVOLUTION.

PUBLISHED BY THE STATE.

VOL. XIII.

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE

COUNCIL FROM JULY 13TH, 1781, TO DEC. 31ST, 1783,

BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE.

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HARRISBURG:

PRINTED BY THEO. FENN & CO.
1853.

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CONTENTS.

ACT for appointing Wardens for the Port at Philadelphia, 105.

for the relief of several frontier counties, 127.

for preventing the erecting or forming a new and independent

State within this Commonwealth, 477.

for the sale of certain lands in Pennsylvania, 477.

Agents of Confiscated and Forfeited Estates to make returns, 106.

Address of the Council of Pennsylvania, 284.

to his Excellency General George Washington, 130.

Washington's reply to the same, 131.

from the Minister of France, 285.

Adams, John, acknowledged and received by France as Minister

Plenipotentiary, 377.

Attainted traitors, whose property was confiscated, 6, 12, 13, 20,
26, 30, 32, 34, 39, 40, 45, 46, 47, 52, 56, 57, 78, 79, 80, 81,
94, 97, 108, 126, 141, 170, 175, 182, 183, 204, 251, 257, 273,
277, 325, 505.

Audibert, Philip, Deputy Paymaster General of the U. S., 7.
Aspden, Matthias, an attainted traitor, 170, 209.

Allen, Andrew, his property confiscated, 12, 57, 303, 809.
Army, a great part of it moved to the south, 41.

Adams, Jonathan, an attainted traitor, 182.

Ammunition, large quantities purchased, 213.

Anderson, Stephen, his property confiscated, 56, 333.

Allen, John, abets and aids British prisoners to effect their
escape, 513.

B.

BARON DE KALB'S SONS, Pierre and John, commissioned, 52.
Barras De Count, French seamen delivered to him, 5.

letter from him, 55.

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Bedford county, ammunition sent into, 1.

Ranging companies in, 133, 145, 150, 203, 209,

210, 218, 331.

Biddle, Clement, appointed Quarter Master General, 53.

Boundary line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, relative there-

to, 79, 203, 205, 252, 510, 530, 541, 685, 686, 753.

Bay, Thomas, of Washington county, raised a number of volun-
teers, 133.

Billingsport, pest house at established, 54.

Breasly, a letter from, 2.

Bortram, Alexander, an attainted traitor, 175.

Bank, a meditated attack upon by the soldiery in Philadelphia,
611, 613, 617, 619.

Bell, William, an attainted traitor, 529.

Buzzard, Frederick, aids British prisoners to effect their escape,
520.

Bowman, Benjamin, aids British soldiers, &ca., 535.

Books of minutes of Council examined touching Connecticut con-

troversy, 332.

Benefits, certain ones to which officers in the army are entitled to,
712, 718.

Bulla Thomas, an attainted traitor, 333.

CHARLESTOWN SUFFERERS, relative thereto, 1.

Carlisle, Abraham, an attainted traitor, 6.

Copper coin counterfeited, in the use of a base metal, 4.

Carpenter, Christian, aids British prisoners to escape, 512.
Connecticut controversy, touching, 10, 123, 313, 314, 332, 342,
361, 366, 399, 437, 442, 474, 475, 476, 478, 486.

Campbell, Peter, an attainted traitor, 52.

Cumberland county, flour, grain, and forage on hand, to be sold,

311.

militia in ordered to march to Northumberland

county, 314.

Cessation of hostilities, proclamation relative thereto, 559.
Campaign re-opened with vigor, preparations made, 291.
Comptroller General's reports, 553, 555, 561, 567, 577, 579,
582, 593, 601, 611, 613, 615, 620, 623, 631, 634, 636, 638,
640, 643, 668, 676, 679, 708, 755, 777.

Conwallis' surrender at Yorktown, 94.

Continental money largely counterfeited, 385.

Chevaux-de-frize, in the river Delaware, removed, 744.

E.

ENGLISH, BENJAMIN, charged with high treason, 96.

Evans, Thomas, an attainted traitor, 204.

Evans, John, aids British prisoners to escape, 526.
Expedition against the Indians contemplated, 132, 422.
Election frauds closely investigated, 220, 232.

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