then, Sir, become your duty, and is our requirement, that you conform yourself to such advice and orders as you shall from time to time receive from that body. We are, &c.

CHARLES COUNTY (MARYLAND) COMMITTEE.

Information being made to some of the members of the Committee of this County, on Monday, the 29th of May, that certain persons had imported, and were privately selling goods in a daring and direct violation of the Continental Association, a meeting of the Committee was immediately called, and but few members attending, a general meeting was publickly requested this day, when a very full and respectable number attended at the Court-House, in Port-Tobacco, to make inquiry into this affair; and it was clearly and satisfactorily proved, that a certain John Baillie, who last May came a passenger in the Ship Lady Margaret, Captain William Noble, from Scotland, had brought sundry Dry Goods with him, which appeared, by the testimony of Baillie and Patrick Graham, living in Port-Tobacco, to have been put on board and landed without the consent or knowledge of the Captain, though Baillie swore that Captain Noble knew of his having goods on board the ship when he arrived in Wicomico. It also appeared that Baillie, when he put these goods on board the ship in Scotland, knew of the Continental Association, and that Patrick Graham, in a secret manner, did assist and aid him in taking them from on board the ship, and did privately lake them into his house, and secretly sell a part thereof, for his own and Baillie’s interest, to several people in this County, without letting them know the circumstances under which they were imported. Whereupon the Committee Resolved, That the said John Baillie and Patrick Graham, for their infamous conduct, ought to be publickly known and held up as foes to the rights of British America, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and that every person ought henceforth to break off all dealings with the said John Baillie and Patrick Graham; and as the ship which brought the goods had sailed, and there being no opportunity of shipping and sending them hack to Britain, the Committee further

Resolved, That such of the goods as are unsold, or can be collected from the purchasers, shall be stored with and kept by Mr. Zephaniah Turner, until, and twelve months after a general importation is agreed on by the Continental Congress; and that, where any of the goods which may have been sold cannot be collected, the said Graham shall deposite the amount of the sales thereof, in cash, to be kept with the goods stored; the whole at the risk of the owners. Published by order of the Committee:

JOHN GWINN, Clerk.

NEW-YORK COMMITTEE.

The Committee met by adjournment, 29th May, 1775. Present:

Ordered, That Mr. Seaton, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Berrian, and Mr. Phenix, be a Sub-Committee to observe the conduct of the proprietors of goods imported in the Snow Patty, Captain Sheppard, from Liverpool, during her stay in this port, and to permit her being supplied with water and other necessaries for her departure, and also to procure two trusty persons, inhabitants of this City, to continue on board while she remains in this harbour; that they desire the Captain to depart from this port on or before Thursday morning next, wind and weather permitting; and that he be further requested to make oath, that he will not discharge any part of his cargo in this Province, and that it be recommended to him to go back again agreeable to the directions of the late Continental Congress.

The Committee adjourned to Monday, 5th June, 1775.

Whereas, the publick service of the Colony may render large supplies of the following articles absolutely necessary, upon sudden emergencies, this Committee doth therefore recommend to all our fellow citizens, who are possessed of any Osnaburghs, Ravens Duck, brown Russia Sheeting, brown Drilling, striped and plain Blankets, eight-quarter green and spotted Rugs, coarse Woollens, barrelled Beef, barrelled Pork, or tin Plates, not to dispose of them until the Provincial Congress shall determine on the expediency of detaining them for our own use. And it is also recommended, that the owners of said articles make reports of the quantities that they have on hand, to the Chairman, Deputy-Chairman, or Secretary of this Committee, within six days from this date. By order of the Committee:

HENRY REMSEN, Deputy Chairman.

NEW-YORK CONGRESS TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

SIR: We have been honoured with the receipt of your favour of the 27th instant, containing information, and enclosing despatches relating to the important posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. We are sorry to hear the imminent danger of the people at those posts, from a threatened attack from Quebeck, which might be attended with the loss of them before any resolve of the Continental Congress, for their preservation, could be carried into execution by our Colony.

Though therefore we agree, Sir, in opinion with your Assembly, that the said fortresses are properly under the direction of this Colony; yet we are satisfied that the pressing and urgent necessity of the case, and our present inability to take the command of those posts, fully justify the arrangements mentioned in your letter, to have been taken by your respectable body for their immediate defence.

We are, therefore, far from considering them as an invasion of this Colony, or an intermeddling with the service entrusted to it, as you may collect from our former letter on this subject; but rather esteem them as a most friendly interposition for the safety of our frontiers, and as the wise improvement of your early intelligence, and your state of readiness to provide against immediate danger. As in consequence of these arrangements, and the succours we may be able to supply till we are in a condition to take that direction of the above-mentioned fortresses, which their situation, and the determination of the Continental Congress have allotted to us, we shall attend to proper supply of provisions for the posts. We beg leave at the same time to present you our unfeigned thanks for your most friendly and seasonable reinforcement, from the burden of which we shall, without loss of time, endeavour, in pursuance of further directions from the Continental Congress, to relieve our brethren of Connecticut; and should your stock of ammunition permit the increase of that supply which you have generously destined for that service, we shall exert ourselves in replacing it as soon as we shall have it in our power.

We are, with great respect, Sir, your Honour’s, and the General Court’s most obedient and humble servants.

By order of the Congress:

P. V. B. LIVINGSTON, President.

To the Honourable Jonathan Trumbull, Governour of the Colony of Connecticut.

J. TRUMBULL, JR., TO HIS BROTHER.

Hartford, May 29, 1775.

DEAR BROTHER: I have received your letter per Bacon. A little of politicks before I answer that. In consequence of our last letters from Colonel Arnold, (copies of which you will see before you have this,) we have sent off five