On the first of April, 177G -- ample time having elapsed, since the two Orders were made, to enable all which could be done in the way of purchases and sales of Pork and Flour, to have been done, satisfactorily to those who were originally in the secret -- the Committee of Safety discovered what it regarded as a fact, that such a Military Magazine as General Lee had called for and which the Provincial Congress had deliberately established, would " not be absolutely necessary ; " and it accordingly " Ordered, That Colonel
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" Gilbert Drake and the other members of West- " chester-County do not purchase any more I'ro- " visions, until farther order ; and that they return
j " with all convenient speed to this Committee, an ao "countofall the I'rovisions Ihey have purchased, anil " in what stores they are placed." '
It reipiired eight tlays fur the Committee's letter and Order to reach the busy Deputies and to arnst their eager searches for Pork ami Flour; bnt on the eighth day, [April \), 177(1, J ( -olonel Draki- rei)orted that he, and .John Thomas, Junior, and Major J.iO( kwood, three of the migratory Deputies, had bought about one thousand barrels of the former and six hundred barrels of the latti'r ; ' from which one may learn soniethingoftlie produetiveiiessof Colonial Westj chester-county, in 1775, notwithstanding the disturbances, already referred to, to which its inhabitants had been so freijuently and so seriously subji'cted -- the