* * This evening the city and suburbs committee met Some of them waited
on the Carpenters' Company for the use of their Hall for the Provincial Committee
to meet in, and were answered that they might have [it] for paying ten
shillings per diem.* Spokesman, Joseph Fox.
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* Pennsylvania Currency-seven shillings and sixpence of which were equal
to a dollar.
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. 14
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