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Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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From Henry Knox

24 June 1776

From Henry Knox

29 June 1776
238
Extract from the Minutes of the Continental Congress
Friday, June 28, 1776

Resolved, That Mr. Wisner, Mr. Paine, and Mr. Floyd be a committee to confer with Anthony Mosengeil, on the subject of manufacturing sulphur:1

That 30 dollars be advanced to said committee, they to be accountable.

Printed in Journals of the Continental Congress, 5:502.

1.

This committee appears to have made no report, although see John Hancock to Michael Hillegas and George Clymer, Mar. 8, 1776 (above) and Mosengeil to RTP, July 5, 1776 (below).