The delegates from
North Carolina, viz., Joseph Hewes and William Hooper, Esq's., arrived this
day, and Richard Caswell, Esq., the other delegate, is hourly expected. This
same day and yesterday, the eight companies of the Royal Regiment of Ireland
marched from hence, in two divisions, for Amboy and Elizabethtown, to be
shipped for Boston.
SOURCE: William
Duane, Editor, Passages from the Diary of Christopher Marshall, Kept
in Philadelphia and Lancaster during the American Revolution, Vol. 1,
1774-1777, p. 11
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