which directs that the Militia of New-York be armed and trained, and in constant readiness to act at a moment’s warning. And thereupon,

Resolved, That it be recommended to the inhabitants of this Colony in general, immediately to furnish themselves with necessary Arms and Ammunition, to use all diligence to perfect themselves in the military art, and, if necessary, to form themselves into Companies for that purpose, until the further order of this Congress.

Ordered, That this Resolve be printed in the Newspapers, and that five hundred copies thereof be printed in handbills.

This Congress then proceeded to the consideration of the residue of the third Resolve and of the fourth Resolve of the Continental Congress, And thereupon,

Resolved, That in compliance with the Resolution of the Continental Congress of the 25th instant, this Congress will use all possible diligence in embodying men according to the said Resolution.

Ordered, That Colonel Lispenard, Col. Ten Broeck, Colonel Holmes, Colonel Lent, Captain Hornbeck, Colonel Blackwell, Colonel Brinckerhoff, Colonel Woodhull, Mr. Polhemus, Mr. Micheau, Mr. John Williams, Mr. Montgomerie, Mr. Hobart, and Mr. Morris, be a Committee to report an arrangement of the Troops to be embodied for the defence of this Colony; and to report such rules and regulations as would be proper to be established by this Congress for the government of such Troops.

A draught of a Letter to be directed to some gentlemen in Tryon County, was read and approved.

Ordered, That two copies thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President; and that one be directed and sent to Christopher Yates, Esquire, and the other to Major Jellis Fonda, in Tryon County.

Ordered, That Letters to the same purport be prepared, signed by the President, and sent to the following gentlemen, viz: To Colonel James Rogers, at Kent, in Cumberland County; to Jacob Bayley, Esquire, at Newbury, in Gloucester County; and to John Taplin, Esq., of Newbury, in Gloucester County; and that the draughts of such Letters respectively be filed.

Ordered, That Mr. Kissam’s motion of yesterday be deferred until to-morrow morning.

The Congress adjourned till nine o’clock to-morrow morning.

Die Jovis, 9 ho., June 1, 1775.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Laidley.  Present:

For the City and County of New-York.—Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., President; Isaac Low, Alexander McDougall, Leonard Lispenard, Joseph Hallett, Abraham Walton, Abraham Brasher, Isaac Roosevelt, John De Lancey, James Beekman, Samuel Verplanck, David Clarkson, Thomas Smith, Benjamin Kissam, John Morin Scott, John Van Cortlandt, Jacobus Van Zandt, John Marston.

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

For Dutchess County.—Dirck Brinckerhoff, Anthony Hoffman, Zephaniah Platt, Ephraim Payne, Gilbert Livingston, Jonathan Landon, Gysbert Schenck, Melancton smith, Nathaniel Sackett.

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

For Orange County.—David Pye, Peter Clowes, William Allison, Abraham Lent.

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

For Westchester County.—Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, Stephen Ward, Philip Van Cortlandt, Robert Graham, William Paulding.

For King’s County.—Johannes E. Lott, Henry Williams, Jeremiah Remsen, Theodorus Polhemus, John Leffertse, Nicholas Covenhoven, John Vanderbilt.

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

For Queen’s County.—Jacob Blackwell, Jonathan Lawrence, Zebulon Williams, Samuel Townshend, Joseph Robinson, Nathaniel Tom.

For Charlotte County.—John Williams, William Marsh.

Major Richard Lawrence, from Richmond County, appeared in Congress.

Ordered, That he take his seat.

A Letter, signed Joseph Warren, President, from the Provincial Congress of the Massachusetts-Bay, dated at Watertown, May 26, 1775, to this Congress, was read.

The copy of a Letter from Benedict Arnold, mentioned to be enclosed in the above, dated Crown Point, May 19, 1775 was read.

A Letter from Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, on behalf of the Governour and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, dated Hartford, May 29, 1775, was read.

A Letter from the Committee at the City of Albany, dated May 26, 1775, covering the Papers therein mentioned, was read.

The several Papers referred to in the Letter from the said Committee at Albany, were read. The particular numbers and endorsements of them are as follows, to wit:

No. 2. A translation of a Letter from the Mohawk Indians to the Oneidas.

No. 3. A copy of a Letter from the Palatine District to the Committee at Albany, dated May 18, 1775; and an answer thereto, No. 3, a.

No. 4. Copy of affidavit of Hendrick Eckler and four other persons, dated May 19, 1775.

No. 5. Copy of a Letter from Colonel G. Johnson to Committee at Albany, dated May 18, 1775.

No. 6. A copy of a Letter from Colonel G. Johnson to the Magistrates of Palatine, Canajoharie, and other Districts, dated May 20, 1775.

No. 7. Copy of a Letter from Colonel G. Johnson to the Committee of Schenectady, and the Mayor and Corporation of Albany, without date.

No. 8. A copy of a Letter from the Committee of Albany to Colonel Johnson, May 23, 1775.

No. 9. A copy of the Indian’s Speech translated; interpreted May 20, received at Albany 22d May.

No. 10. A copy of an Answer to the Indian’s Speech, dated May 23.

No. 11. A copy of the Mohawk’s Reply, dated May 25; a copy of the Committee’s Speech in return; and of the Mohawk’s concluding Speech.

No. 12. A copy of a Letter from Colonel Arnold to the Committee of Albany, May 22.

No. 13. A copy of a Letter from Colonel Arnold to Captain Noah Lee, dated at Crown Point, May 23.

No. 14. Extracts of sundry Letters from Quebeck; extracted May 25.

No. 15. A List of Officers and Men wanted for the two vessels on the Lake.

No. 16. The method proposed by the Albany Committee for raising Men.

A draught of a Letter to the Delegates representing this Colony in Continental Congress to attend copies of all the despatches this day received and before mentioned, was read and approved of, and is in the words, following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress at New-York, June 1, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: We this morning received despatches from Albany, Watertown, and Hartford, which contain, as you will observe, very important intelligence. We think it our duty, through you, to lay it before the Continental Congress, and for that purpose have prepared copies of the several papers which we received as aforesaid. We shall make no comments on them, being convinced that your own good understanding, and the knowledge of the state of these Colonies, will render any such attempts useless. Our business proceeds with great heaviness for want of the sinews of war, which we have not, neither have we any powder. Money we cannot have until we receive the directions of your body, as you will easily believe. Besides this, we