Proceedings of the Bucks County Committee of Safety
July 10, 1776

IN COMMITTEE, July 10, 1776.

Resolved, That this Committee will use their utmost endeavours [sic] that the Resolve of the late Provincial Conference for imbodying [sic] four hundred of the Associators of this County, be immediately put into execution; and that the following gentlemen be appointed Officers, being the proportion allotted to this County, viz: Colonel, Joseph HART; Captains, John FOLLWELL, William ROBERTS, William HART, Valantine UP, John JAMISON; First Lieutenants, John KROESEN, Henry DARRAH, Hugh LONG, Philip TRUMBOWER, Dennis MIDDLESWART; Second Lieutenants, Abraham DUBOIS, James SHAW, Jacob DRAKE, Samuel DEANE, John IRWIN; Ensigns, ____ McKISSACK, William HIMES, Joseph HART, Stoffel KELLER, John McCAMMON; Adjutant, John JOHNSON; Surgeon, Joseph FENTON, Jr.; Quartermaster, Alexander BENSTEAD.

Resolved, That where any person or persons in any Township of this County, shall refuse to deliver his or their Firearms to the Collectors of Arms, either chosen or appointed agreeably to a late resolve of the Assembly of this Province, the said Collectors or any of them, shall apply to the Colonel or in his absence the next in command of the Battalion to which the Associators of that Township belong, who shall thereupon give orders to such officer and such number of men as he shall apprehend proper and sufficient to enforce the said resolve of Assembly.

Resolved, That where it shall appear to the Collectors of Arms, that any person or persons have been possessed of good Firearms, and do not deliver them, or satisfy the Collectors where they are, the said Collectors, or any of them, cite such person or persons to appear before this Committee at their next meeting, and satisfy this Board how the said Arms have been disposed of.

Agreeably to two Resolves of the Committee of Safety of this Province, this Committee have appointed Garrett DUNGAN to cause the Firearms collected from Non-Associators in this county, to be immediately rendered fit for use.

Matthew BENNETT is appointed for the First Battalion and Jared IRWIN for the Second, Third, and Fourth Battalions of Association in this County, to seize the guns and mark the size on the breech pin or lower end of the barrel.

By order of Committee:

Joseph HART, Chairman.