McDougall, Leonard Lispenard, Abraham Walton, Abraham Brasher, Isaac Roosevelt, John De Lancey, James Beekman, Samuel Verplanck, Richard Yates, David Clarkson, Thomas Smith, Benjamin Kissam, John Morin Scott, Jacobus Van Zandt, and John Marston.

For the City and County of Albany.—Volkert P.Douw, Esq., Vice-President; Robert Yates, Esq., Abraham Yates, Jacob Cuyler, Peter Silvester, Walter Livingston, Robert Van Rensselaer, Henry Glenn, Abraham Ten Broeck, and Francis. Nicoll.

For Dutchess County.—Anthony Hoffman, Zephaniah Platt, Richard Montgomerie, Gilbert Livingston, Jonathan Landon, Melancton Smith, and Nathaniel Sackelt

For Ulster County.—Col. Johannes Hardenbergh, Col. James Clinton, Egbert Dumond, Christopher Tappen, John Nicholson, and Jacob Hornbeck.

For Orange County.—John Coe, David Pye, Peter Clowes, William Allison, Abraham Lent, and John Herring.

For Suffolk County.—Colonel Nathaniel Woodhull, John Sloss Hobart, Thomas Tredwell, John Foster, Ezra L’Hommedieu, Thomas Wickham, and Selah Strong.

For Westchester County.—Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, Joseph Drake, Philip Van Cortlandt, James Holmes, David Dayton, John Thomas, Jun., and William Paulding.

For Brooklyn in King’s County:—Henry Williams and Jeremiah Remsen, Esq.

For Richmond County.— Paul Micheau, John Journey, Aaron Cortelyou, and Richard Conner.

For Queen’s County.—Col. Jacob Blackwell, Jonathan Lawrence, Samuel Townshend, and Joseph Robinson.

For Charlotte County.— John Williams and William Marsh.

The gentlemen who are Deputies from the City and County of Albany, at the request of the Congress, recommended, and the Congress nominated and appointed John N. Bleeker, Henry J. Bogert, George Palmer, Dirck Swart, and Peter Lansing, of the County of Albany, or any one or more of them, to superintend the removal of the Cannon and Stores (mentioned in the Minutes of the Grand Continental Congress) to the south end of Lake George; and in ease of the inability or refusal of those gentlemen, this Congress does authorize and request the Sub-Committee of the City and County of Albany to appoint proper persons to superintend the removal of the said Cannon and Stores to the place aforesaid.

A Letter to the President, subscribed by Nathaniel Wales, Thaddeus Burr, and Pierpont Edwards, Esquires, informing the Congress that they are a Committee from the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut, appointed to wait on this Congress in order to procure intelligence of the measures that may be adopted by this Congress respecting the common cause of the British Colonies; to communicate a true state of the measures taken by that Colony, and to cultivate the friendship and harmony which subsists between this Colony and the Colony of Connecticut; and informing that they attending in New-York for the purposes of their appointment; was read, and filed;

And thereupon, Mr. Richard Yates and Mr. Morris are appointed a Committee to wait on those gentlemen immediately, and to introduce them to this Congress.

Nathaniel Wales, Thaddeus Burr, and Pierpont Edwards. Esquires, before mentioned as a Committee from the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut, being introduced into this Congress, produced their Credentials, signed by the Honourable William Williams, Esq., the Speaker, and Richard Law, Esq., the Clerk of the said House of Representatives; and the same were read.

Ordered, That Colonel Woodhull, Mr. Low, Mr. Scott, Colonell Ten Broeck, Mr. McDougall, Mr. Richard Yates, and Mr. Morris, be a Committee to confer with the said Committee from the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut, on the subject-matter of their Letter to this Congress, and of their commission from the said House of Representatives, and to report thereon to this Congress.

Resolved, That this Congress will, before they rise, provide the best ways and means in their power, as Representatives of the People, for the discharge of such money as is now lent, or shall be subscribed or otherwise advanced or supplied on the publick faith, to defray the charges that are or shall be incurred in the present exigences of the Colony, or that shall hereafter be expended or incurred by recommendation of the Continental or of this Provincial Congress.

Ordered, The last preceding Resolution be published in the publick Newspapers.

The Congress then took into consideration that part of the Report of the Committee concerning the removal of the Cannon and Stores, which relates to the estimate of the expense of removing the same, and the ways and means of raising money to defray the expense thereof.

Ordered, That Messrs. David Clarkson, Alexander McDougall, Walter Livingston, Jacob Cuyler, Henry Glenn, Richard Montgomerie, Egbert Dumond, Peter Clowes, John Sloss Hobart, Paul Micheau, Isaac Low, and Gouverneur Morris, be a Committee for both those purposes; and that they make their reports on those respective matters with all convenient speed.

The draught of the Letter to the Governour and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, being read, paragraph by paragraph, was approved of, and ordered to be entered in the Minutes; and is in the words following, to wit:

To the Honourable the Governour and Company of the ENGLISH Colony of CONNECTICUT:

BRETHREN: By a minute of the Grand Continental Congress, of the eighteenth of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, a copy whereof we do herewith transmit to you, we are informed that Ticonderoga hath been taken by sundry inhabitants of the Northern Colonies; and from the minute, aforesaid, we are assured that this measure was for the common safety of, the American. Colonies. In pursuance of the directions contained in that minute, we have given the necessary orders for removing the Cannon and Stores (taken in that important fortress) to the south end of Lake George, and for securing them there; and we have appointed John N. Bleeker, Henry J. Bogert, Dirck Swart, George Palmer, and Peter Lansing, superintendents of this business.

There is no doubt but that our brethren in Connecticut, will feel great reluctance at the idea of ordering any of their Troops to march within the bounds of this Colony, for the purpose of defending the Fort of Ticonderoga, and the Cannon and Stores above-rnentioned at Fort George; but we pray you to cast away all fears of offending us on this occasion. We shall be happy to hear that you have placed a part of your forces in these posts, with intent to defend them until they shall be relieved by Troops from this Colony.

In further pursuance of the directions of the Grand Congress, we have ordered provisions to be conveyed to Ticonderoga and Lake George, and we shall continue to furnish such supplies as we shall deem necessary.

You will be pleased, gentlemen, to appoint trusty commanders over your forces destined for the purposes above mentioned; and we do assure you of our willingness that they shall take the command at those places while garrisoned by your Troops. We beg leave to assure you, that in this and all other matters we will pay the highest attention to every recommendation of the Grand Continental Congress; and that we have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most obedient and humble servants.

P. S. We pray you to use every effort to preserve and improve the present peaceable dispositions of the Canadians and Indians, for which purpose we think it will be necessary to keep up the strictest vigilance to prevent any incursions from being made into the Province of Quebeck.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and transmitted with all convenient speed.

Ordered, That the gentlemen who are Deputies from the City and County of Albany, be a Committee to prepare a draught of a Letter to John N. Bleeker and the other four Agents for superintending the removal of the Cannon and Stores from Ticonderoga; and also a draught of Instructions