To the Honourable Provincial Congress now sitting at WATERTOWN:

The Petition of DAVIS and COVERLY, late of BOSTON, humbly showeth.

That whereas your petitioners have a quantity of English goods in Boston; that Mr. Henry Barnes, of Marlborough, now in Boston, has quantities of English goods at said Marlborough, near the same quality, and is willing to make an exchange for the same: We therefore beg leave of this honourable Congress that we, your petitioners, be allowed to make the exchange; and, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.

DAVIS & COVERLY.

Watertown, June 7, 1775.

RESOLVES OF HANOVER (VIRGINIA) VOLUNTEERS.

At a meeting of the Hanover Volunteer Company on the 8th of June, 1775:

Resolved, That this Company approve of the spirited resolution of the Williamsburgh Volunteers of the 25th ult., and that they are determined, at the risk of their lives, to aid and assist in protecting the liberties of this Country against all arbitrary measures whatsoever.

Resolved, That the expedition undertaken by this Company in making reprisals on the King’s property for powder removed from the Country’s magazine by the command of the Governour, proceeded from a sincere attachment to the liberties of their Country; and it is with heartfelt satisfaction that their conduct is so generally approved by their worthy countrymen.

Signed by order of the Company:

JAMES OVERTON, Clerk.

Philadelphia, June 8, 1775.

This morning the three Battalions of this City and Liberties, consisting of fifteen hundred men, the Artillery Company of one hundred and fifty, (with two twelve and four six-pound brass field-pieces,) a troop of Light-horse, several companies of Light-Infantry, Rangers, and Riflemen, in the whole above two thousand men, marched to the commons, and having joined in brigade, went through the manual exercise, firings, and manævres, (with a dexterity scarcely to have been expected from such short practice,) in the presence of the honourable members of the Continental Congress, and several thousand spectators, among whom were a great number of the most respectable inhabitants of this City.

ABRAHAM CLARK TO THE NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Elizabethtown, New-Jersey, June 8, 1775.

SIR: You have now sent you six quarter casks and two half barrels of powder. The quarter casks I got at New-Brunswick, and the two half barrels, containing one hundred and five pounds, I got at Woodbridge; for each of which I gave receipts that I received them to be forwarded to the Provincial Camp near Boston, agreeable to a requisition from them. There was no more to be obtained; they had sold the most of their stores to the inhabitants. You will be so kind as to send a receipt of the same tenour of those I gave, that I may show them the stores are forwarded agreeable to my promises. I am, Sir, your humble servant,

ABRAHAM CLARK,

To Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq.

NEW-YORK CONGRESS TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

[Read in Congress June 10, 1775.]

In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 8, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: We take the liberty to intrude on the patience of your most respectable body, by enclosing a letter which we have this instant received from our brethren in the Massachusetts-Bay. When we inform you that it is utterly impracticable for us to procure what they have requested, you will certainly excuse a freedom, which is dictated by an attention to the publick safety. How necessary it is., to provide some remedy to this pressing necessity, we will not presume to mention. Our duty hath compelled us to relate to you the facts. They speak for themselves loudly; and a most entire confidence in, your wisdom precludes us from saying any thing farther on the subject.

We are, gentlemen, most faithfully and respectfully, your fellow-labourers and countrymen.

By order and in behalf of the Provincial Congress:

VOLKERT P. Douw, Vice-President.

To the Honourable the Continental Congress.

GENERAL WARD AND OTHERS TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Camp. June 4, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Your noble exertions in the common cause, your zeal for the maintenance of the rights of America, and the sympathizing concern with which we know you look on our sufferings, encourages us to represent to you the distressing state of this Colony.

Our capital is filled with disciplined troops, thoroughly equipped with every thing necessary to render them formidable; a train of artillery as complete as can be conceived of; a full supply of arms and ammunition; and an absolute command of the harbour of Boston, which puts it in their power to furnish themselves with whatever they shall think convenient by sea, are such advantages as must render our contest with them in every view extremely difficult.

We suffer at present the greatest inconveniences from a want of a sufficient quantity of powder; without this, every attempt to defend ourselves, or annoy our enemies, must prove abortive. We have taken every step to avail ourselves of this article, by drawing into our general magazines whatever could be spared from the respective Towns of this Colony; but the frequent skirmishes we have had has greatly diminished our stock, and we are now under the most alarming apprehensions, that notwithstanding the bravery of our troops, whom we think we can, without boasting, declare are ready to encounter every danger for the preservation of the liberties and rights of America,) we shall basely, for the want of means of defence, fall at last a prey to our enemies. We, therefore, most earnestly beseech you that you would, if possible, afford us some relief in this respect, by lending or selling to us some part of the powder in your Colony. We readily conceive the unwillingness with which you must part with so necessary an article at this time. We know you have not the quantity you would wish to keep for your own use. We apply to you, not because we suppose you have a surplusage, but because we are in the most distressing want. We beg, therefore, that we may not be suffered to perish. We have taken such steps as we have great reason to hope will, in a short time, furnish us with powder, and if we can be assisted till that arrives, we doubt not but that we shall be able to baffle the designs of our enemies, and be greatly instrumental in preserving the rights and liberties of all America. We must request that whatever aid you shall find it in your power to give us, may be in the most secret manner, as a knowledge of our deficiency in the article of powder before we are supplied, might be attended with the most fatal consequences.

We are, gentlemen, with great respect, your affectionate brethren and very humble servants,

ARTEMAS WARD,
General of the Massachusetts Army.
JOSEPH WARREN,
Chairman of the Committee of Safety.
MOSES GILL,
Chairman of the Committee of Supplies.

To the Hon. Congress for the Colony of New-York.

P. S. We beg what powder you can possibly spare may be immediately conveyed to us by land, in the way least liable to be suspected by any persons who may correspond with the enemy.

To the Honourable Gentlemen of the Congress for the Colony of NEW-YORK, in body convened:

The Petition of DONALD MCLEOD, Esquire, late from SCOTLAND, most humbly showeth;

That yesterday your said petitioner presented a petition before this honourable body, and as to the contents of which he begs leave to give reference. That since, a ship arrived from Scotland, with a number of Highlanders passengers. That your petitioner talked to, them this morning, and after informing them of the present state of this