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Committee of Safety Receipt Books (Roll 713)

Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Governments, Committee of Safety Receipt Book A, December 5, 1775-May 22, 1776 and Receipt Book B, May 23, 1776-July 31, 1776., This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education., Arranged chronologically by date payments were made or received. A record of the receipts of the Committee of Safety. Entries are neatly written in two ledger books with the date of receipt written at the top right-hand corner of the page. Each entry states the name of the payee, amount paid, the reason the money was owed and a second signature (seemingly the person who collected the amount.) The amounts are also recorded and totaled together at the bottom of the page. For more details, please see the published Guide to the microfilm of Pennsylvania’s revolutionary governments, 1775-1790 (record group 27) in the Pennsylvania State Archives: https://archive.org/details/guidetoofrecords00penn/page/n3/mode/2up
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APA citation style
(1775). Committee of Safety Receipt Books (Roll 713). Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/psa/islandora/object/psa%3A1856764
MLA citation style
Committee Of Safety Receipt Books (Roll 713). no date. 1775.
Chicago Citation Style citation style
“Committee Of Safety Receipt Books (Roll 713)”, Receipt Books, 1775-1776, undated, 1775. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/psa/islandora/object/psa%3A1856764.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

[]Details

Title

Committee of Safety Receipt Books (Roll 713)

Subject

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Committees of safety
Receipts (Acknowledgments)

Description

Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Governments, Committee of Safety Receipt Book A, December 5, 1775-May 22, 1776 and Receipt Book B, May 23, 1776-July 31, 1776.

Department

Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Governments

Division

Committee of Safety, 1775-1776

Date

1775-1776; undated

Location Covered

Pennsylvania

Type

text

Original Format

microfilm

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

RG27-713

Language

English

Relation

RG 27, Committee of Safety, 1775-1776, Series 5, Receipt Books 1775-1776, undated

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Contact

Commercial use of this image requires permission and may be subject to a fee. Contact Pennsylvania State Archives at http://www.pastatearchives.com .

Contributing Institution

Pennsylvania State Archives

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Notes

Arranged chronologically by date payments were made or received. A record of the receipts of the Committee of Safety. Entries are neatly written in two ledger books with the date of receipt written at the top right-hand corner of the page. Each entry states the name of the payee, amount paid, the reason the money was owed and a second signature (seemingly the person who collected the amount.) The amounts are also recorded and totaled together at the bottom of the page. For more details, please see the published Guide to the microfilm of Pennsylvania’s revolutionary governments, 1775-1790 (record group 27) in the Pennsylvania State Archives: https://archive.org/details/guidetoofrecords00penn/page/n3/mode/2up