Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memorial to Commodore John Barry, Father of the Navy of the United States
Not only was the Society represented in the army but, from the very first shot fired in the Revolution, many of its members were enrolled in the infant navy. Andrew Caldwell, one of the charter members of the organization, was appointed commander of the Navy of Pennsylvania, organized to defend the city against the naval forces of Great Britain. He commanded the ?eet which repelled the attack of the British ships Roebuck and Liverpool, which came up the Delaware River on the 8th of May, 1776.
With many of its members defending the new Republic on land and sea, there were still others who rendered almost as, if not more, important service by supplying Washington with the means to continue the war and, at a meeting held the i7th of June, 1780, twenty-seven members of the Society subscribed and con tributed to support the credit of a bank to be established for furnishing a supply of provisions for the armies of the United States the sum of Three Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Pounds.
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