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10 July.

Docno: PJA04d145

Author: JA
Author: Continental Congress, Board of War
Date: 1776-07-10

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[dateline] 10 July.

The congress resolved that the Committee of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, be empowered to mount a guard over the prisoners there and construct a stockade and that privates held as prisoners at Reading be sent to Lancaster ( JCC , 5:531).
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