Excerpts of the Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania
January 12, 1778
The Council met.
Lancaster, Monday January [1]2, 1778.
Present:
Hon'ble George BRYAN, Esq'r, Vice President.
Joseph HART,
James EDGAR,
Jacob MORGAN,
John HAMBRIGHT,
Thomas URIE, &
Thomas SCOTT.
Esq'rs.
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Brig'r Gen'l LACEY having been appointed one of the Commissioners for Collecting of Clothing in the County of Bucks, which his duty as Brig'r Gen'l will so far interfere with the said appointment as to make it necessary to appoint another Commissioner in his stead ; thereupon,
Ordered, That John KERR, of the County of Bucks, be appointed Commissioner for the Collecting of Clothing in the said County, in the room & stead of John LACEY, Esq'r, appointed to be a Brigadier General.
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