Peter T. Curtenius for the services aforesaid, he shall be allowed a lawful interest until the same shall be repaid.

Messrs. Clarkson, Colonel Holmes, Thomas Smith, and Colonel Lent, have leave of absence.

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

Die Saturnii, 9 ho. A. M., June 3, 1775.

The Congress met. Opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Treat. Present:

For the City and County of New-York.—Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., President; Isaac Low, Alexander McDougall, Joseph Hallett, Abraham Walton, Isaac Roosevelt, John De Lancey, James Beekman, Samuel Verplanck, Benjamin Kissam, John Van Cortandt, and Jacobus Van Zandt.

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

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

For Ulster County.—Johannes Hardenbergh, John Nicholspn, and Jacob Hornbeck.

For Orange County.—David Pye, Peter Clowes, William Allison, and Jeremiah Clarke.

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

For Westchester County.—Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, and Stephen Ward.

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

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

For Queen’s County.—Jacob Blackwell, Jonathan Lawrence, Zebulon Williams, Samuel Townshend, Joseph Robinson, and Richard Thorne.

For Charlotte County.—John Williams, William Marsh.

Col. Hardenbergh and Captain Hornbeck, from Ulster, and Mr. Townshend, Captain Williams, and Mr. Thorne, have leave of absence.

Colonel Ten Broeck and three others, Members for Albany, have leave of absence, they always leaving seven Members.

The Congress ordered the stores, men, and things hereafter mentioned, to be provided by Peter T. Curtenius and forwarded to Albany, and that the several articles for that purpose, hereinafter mentioned, be provided by the Commissioners at Albany, that the whole may be forwarded to the south end of Lake George, viz:

A List of Men and articles to be procured by Peter T. Curtenius, and forwarded to the Agents at Albany:

Two mates for two vessels: 2 gunners: 2 carpenters capable of making carriages: 2 gunners’ mates: 2 boatswains: 20 seamen: 200 barrels of pork: 10 barrels of pitch: 20 casks of rice: 4 barrels of tar: 500 pounds of powder, if so much can be got: 1000 pounds of oakum: 100 shovels, 50 spades, 12 crowbars, and 50 pick-axes, to be marked New-York: 3 casks of nails, one of 12d, 20d, and 24d, each: 100: camp kettles.

The following articles to be procured at Albany: spikes: a gin: rope: 6 grindstones: cart boxes: 100 American falling axes, marked New-York.

The Congress took into consideration the Report of the Committee who viewed the ground at King’s Bridge, and places adjacent.

Ordered, That a copy of the said Report, with the Map annexed thereto, be transmitted to the New-York Delegates at Philadelphia, and that Mr. Morris and Captain Montgomerie be a Committee for draughting a Letter to the said Delegates on the subject matter of said Report.

Ordered, That the Committee of Correspondence draught an answer to Governour Trumbull’s Letter, dated May 29, 1775.

A Letter from James Rivington, Printer, directed to this Congress, as also a copy of his Address to the Continental Congress, and a copy of his Letter to the General Committee of the City of New-York, were read, and the subject matter taken into consideration.

Ordered, That the same be deferred.

Ordered, That the Committee of Correspondence draught an answer to the Letter of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts-Bay, dated Watertown, May 26, 1775.

Ordered, That Mr. Christopher Blundell be desired to deliver one of the Gins under his care to Abraham P. Lott, Esq., and Mr. Thomas Ivers, and take their receipt for the same.

Whereas the Continental Congress, in their Resolution of the fifteenth ultimo, have recommended to the inhabitants of this City, that if the Troops which are expected should arrive here, this Colony act on the defensive so long as it may be consistent with their safety and security: And whereas the General Committee of the City and County of New-York, in their Address to the Lieutenant-Governour of this Colony, have requested that in case any Troops from Great Britain should arrive here, that he would endeavour to procure orders from General Gage to prevent their landing or encamping in this City and County: And this Congress being informed that orders have been received from the General for the embarkation of the Troops now in this City: We do, therefore, as well in conformity to what we conceive to be the spirit of the above order of the Continental Congress, as the intention of the above Address, earnestly recommend it to the inhabitants of this City and County, and all others, not to obstruct the embarkation of the said Troops, but to permit them to depart this City peaceably.

Ordered, That one thousand of the above Resolve be printed in handbills.

In pursuance of the Letter from the Delegates for this Colony now at the Provincial Congress, of the 30th May, 1775, a draught of a Letter to the inhabitants of Tryon County was read and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 3, 1775.

GENTELMEN: We lately wrote to a few individuals of your County, representing the use and necessity of your appointing Deputies to associate with us in this present Convention, upon a presumption that you have already chosen Committees with a view that our thoughts on the subject might be made known to the publick, and the measure recommended carried into execution by a ready and speedy compliance, at least of those who are friendly to the liberties of the subject, and consequently foes to tyranny and oppression. Since those letters were sent up to your County, we yesterday received one from our Delegates in the Grand Congress at Philadelphia, in which, among other things, there is a paragraph in substance following: “That if there are any Counties in which no Committees have been chosen, as we are informed there are, that it would be proper to recommend that they be immediately elected. We observe that Tryon County has not sent up Deputies to your Convention, and would submit it to your consideration whether it would not be proper to send them a message, suggesting the inconveniences attending such conduct, and the necessity it will lay you under of breaking off all connections with them. The day rapidly approaches which will determine the important point of American freedom; and though there are but very few, comparatively speaking, who still have not signified their union with their brethren in this glorious cause, yet we would have every reasonable effort used to increase the numbers of our friends, as it will not only afford additional weight to the controversy, but probably will most effectually destroy the expiring hopes of our adversaries.”

We once more call upon you, for your own reputation’s sake, for the love, of your Country, and as you tender your own happiness and welfare, the prosperity of the whole Continent, and of the millions yet unborn, that you will not separate from your brethren upon this momentous occasion, who are embarked and deeply engaged in this grand struggle. Permit us to entreat you not to omit or delay