Excerpts of the Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania
September 11, 1777

The Council met.

Philad'a, Thursday Septem. 11, 1777.

Present:

His Excell'y THOS. WHARTON, jun'r, Esq'r, President
Hon'ble George Bryan, Esq'r, Vice President.

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As the Enemy is near at hand & this minute engaging our Army under the Command of his Excell'y Gen'l WASHINGTON,

Ordered, That every able bodied man in the County of Bucks, turn out with his Arms, accoutrements & blankets, & that those who cannot furnish themselves with Arms to take with them Axes, spades, & every other kind of entrenching Tools, & that Colonel ROBERTS, ERWIN & KILLER, rendezvous at Sweed's Ford, and that Colo's TOOMB & McELWAINE rendezvous at this City.

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Ordered, That the Officers commanding the Militia of the County of Bucks, now at the Barracks, do immediately send a guard of Four Men to Robin Hood Ford, over the Schuylkill, four Men to upper Ferry, Four Men to the Bridge, & four Men to Gray's Ferry, to take care of the Artillery placed at those places.