Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3
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Extract from the Minutes of the Continental Congress
Friday, June 28, 1776
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Resolved, That Mr. Wisner, Mr. Paine, and Mr. Floyd be a committee to confer with Anthony Mosengeil, on the subject of manufacturing sulphur:1
That 30 dollars be advanced to said committee, they to be accountable.
Journals of the Continental Congress, 5:502
This committee appears to have made no report, although see John Hancock to Michael Hillegas and George Clymer, Mar. 8, 1776 (above) and Mosengeil to RTP, July 5, 1776 (below).