Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Governments, Council of Safety Accounts continued, July 20, 1776-April 16, 1777 and undated., 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 of receipt. A collection of the receipts of the Council of Safety from July 20, 1776-April 16, 1777. The loose receipts in this collection contain specific information which includes the date of transaction, persons involved, the reason for the transaction and the amount of money or specific description of items exchanged. Information contained in these receipts include orders from officers for men, supplies, rations or meals, guns and ammunition, money paid to soldiers or private citizens for goods or services, inventory lists of stores and Stewards stores aboard the ship Montgomery, lists of settled accounts, reimbursement for women in private homes that gave soldiers meals, money paid to clean, mend, appraise, buy and sell guns, a gunlock factory account, money given to provide for families of militiamen, and reports by citizens of damages done to their homes when enemy military troops were quartered in their private homes during their absence. In cases where the military is mentioned, the receipt lists the purpose of the transaction as well as the name of the company, commanding officer and occasionally where that group of men were marching. 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
