this essential requisition, but co-operate with us cheerfully, by redoubled vigilance and activity, and make up for your long negligence and backwardness. Perhaps this will be the last application to you, as the time is almost come that we should be able to distinguish those who are inimical among us. We should with reluctance be compelled to hold your County up to the publick as a disjointed and disaffected part of the community.

We are, gentlemen, your most humble servants.

To Messrs. John Fry, Peter Wagener, Jacob Clock, Anthony Van Veghten, Christopher Yates, and the rest of the inhabitants of the County of Tryon.

Ordered, That four copies thereof be engrossed, signed by the President, and transmitted.

A draught of a Letter to Colonel G. Johnson was also read and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:

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

SIR: At a time when the American subjects on this extensive Continent are almost with one voice and united effort nobly exerting themselves in the glorious cause of liberty, and endeavouring to reconcile the unnatural and unhappy differences between the parent State and these Colonies upon permanent and constitutional principles, we cannot help lamenting that we have received disagreeable accounts from your quarter, that there are individuals officiously interrupting the mode and measures conceived necessary to bring about these salutary purposes.

On the one hand, you may depend upon it that we shall discourage and discountenance every attempt against your person and property, and shall use our utmost endeavours to render them safe and secure; but on the other hand, we expect you will not counteract any of the measures expedient for the common weal recommended by the Continental or Provincial Congress, or by the Committees formed or to be formed. Should you take so unfriendly a part, we cannot answer for the consequences of such a conduct; on the contrary, if you and our Indian brethren under your superintendency, do not interfere in this controversy, you may promise yourselves all the protection that this House can afford you. The dispute is become so serious now that we cannot silently suffer our plan to be frustrated by our own countrymen. We are, &c.

To Colonel GUY JOHNSON, &c.

Ordered, That the same be signed by the President, and transmitted.

Ordered, That the Resolve of this Board of the 26th of May ultimo, respecting the People of Canada, be translated into French, and that a copy thereof in French, and the copy of the Resolve in English, be prefixed to the printed copies of the Letters to the People of Canada.

A Letter from John Lamb to this Congress was read.

Ordered, that the said Letter be referred to the Committee appointed to make an arrangement of the Troops to be embodied in this Colony.

The Congress adjourned to next Tuesday morning nine o’clock.

Die Martis, 9 ho. A. M., June 6, 1775.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and opened with prayers by the Rev. Doctor Livingston. Present:

Volhert P. Douw, Esq., Vice-President.

For the City and County of New-York.—Alexander McDougall, Leonard Lispenard, Joseph Hallet, Abraham Brasher, Isaac Roosevelt, James Beekman, Samuel Verplanck, Benjamin Kissam, John Morin Scott, John Marston.

For the City and County of Albany.—Robert Yates, Abraham Yates, Jacob Cuyler, Peter Silvester, Walter Livingston, Robert Van Rensselaer, Henry Glenn.

For Dutchess County.—Anthony Hoffman, Richard Montgomerie, Ephraim Payne, Gilbert Livingston, Gysbert Schenck, Nathaniel Sackett.

For Ulster County.—John Nicholson.

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

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

For Westchester County.—Stephen Ward, David Dayton, John Thomas, Jun.

For King’s County.—Henry Williams, Jeremiah Remsen, John Vanderbilt.

For Richmond County.— (None.)

For Queen’s County.—Joseph Robinson, Nathaniel Tom.

For Charlotte County.—John Williams, William Marsh.

A Letter from the Committee at Albany to this Congress being read, was in the words following, to wit:

“Albany Committee Chamber, June 2, 1775.

“GENTLEMEN: In consequence of a letter from this Committee to Governour Trumbull, dated 27th ult., we received his answer of the 30th; whereof you have a copy enclosed, and from which it appears that you have sent them a resolve, with a request to send up forces to Ticonderoga, &c. In consequence whereof one thousand of them are now on their way. You will therefore be pleased to send up, with all possible despatch, a sufficient supply of provisions (except flour, peas and bread, which we can supply them with) and other necessaries, for which purpose we send you enclosed copy of a list from Colonel Arnold’s letter to us of the 29th ult.

“We have in the alarm above raised several companies to go up to Ticonderoga, &c, two of which are on their way up. This we did in consequence, first, of the resolution of the Continental Congress of the 18th ult.; secondly of the letter from the New-York Committee enclosing said Resolve, dated 20th ult.; and thirdly, Colonel Arnold’s letter to us requiring immediate assistance. But on our receipt of the above letter from Governour Trumbull, we are in great doubts with respect to our men already raised in this County, and those who stand ready to march up, as we know not the nature of the resolve you have sent to Governour Trumbull; and his letter contains a clause that these one thousand forces are to continue at Ticonderoga, &C., until relieved by troops from this Colony, &c.

“We should be extremely glad to have plain explicit instructions from time to time, that we need not wander astray, and act counter to your intentions and the general good of the publick.

“There are some troops (twelve in number) taken by the Provincial Forces from St. John’s, who are now in this City, and who daily call upon this Committee for the common necessaries of life, but can give the Commissioners or Agents no directions in the premises, as their instructions from you will not warrant them to supply them with provisions, although they have been hitherto supplied out of the Provincial store. But we would be glad of your resolution on this matter, and let us know whether we should supply these troops any longer, or leave them to be supported from the provisions here in the King’s store; and, upon the whole, what you would have us do with them, as they are only a burden to us.

“Please to take these matters into your immediate consideration, and send us your resolution in consequence thereof; and you will oblige, gentlemen, your most humble servant. By order of the Committee:

“SAMUEL STRINGER, Chairman p.t.”

The copy of a Letter from the Governour and Company of Connecticut to said Committee at Albany; and a list of men, implements of war, and stores, from Colonel B. Arnold, wanting at Ticonderoga, and enclosed by the Committee of Albany, were separately read and filed.

A Letter from John Hancock, Esq., President of the Grand/Continental Congress, dated Philadelphia, June 1, 1775, was read.

The Resolve of the Grand/Continental Congress first above mentioned was read, and is in the words following, to wit:

“In Congress, Thursday, June 1, 1775.

“Resolved, That it be recommended to the Government of Connecticut, or the General of the Forces of that Colony, to appoint Commissaries to receive at Albany and forward the Supplies of Provisions for the Forces on Lake Champlain from the Provincial Convention of New-York; and that the said Convention do their utmost endeavours in facilitating and aiding the transportation thereof from thence to where the said Commissaries may direct.”

“A true copy from the Minutes:

“CHARLES THOMSON, Secretary.”