blue broadcloth, sufficient to make 712 short coats, and crimson cloth sufficient for cuffs and facings for the said coats; and that if blue cloth cannot be had, that in such case he purchase blue coating for that purpose; light brown coarse broadcloth sufficient to make 712 short coats, with blue cloth sufficient for cuffs and facings; grey coarse broadcloth sufficient to make 712 short coats, with green cloth sufficient for cuffs and facings; dark brown coarse broadcloth sufficient to make 712 short coats, with scarlet cloth sufficient for cuffs and facings for the same; and that he be also desired to purchase 1,000 stand of arms, 20,000 oil flints, 8,000 pounds of lead, 40 reams of cartouch paper, 2,852 gun-worms, 2,852 screw-drivers, ticking or Russia drilling to make 14 bell-tents, 169 pieces of ravens duck as soon as it can be got, and also 520 camp kettles, 2,852 canteens, 2,852 haversacks, 800 small hatchets, 400 falling axes, 80 pickaxes, and 400 spades; and that he be desired to get all the ravens duck which he has on hand made up into soldiers’ tents.

A draught of a Letter to the Delegates of this Colony at the Continental Congress, to accompany the Resolves of this Congress on the subject of a Plan of Accommodation with Great Britain, was read and approved of, and is in the words following:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 28, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Deeply impressed with the importance, the utility, and necessity of an accommodation with our Parent State, and conscious that the best service we can render to the present and all future generations, must consist in promoting it, we have laboured without intermission to point out such moderate terms as may tend to reconcile the unhappy differences which threaten the whole Empire with destruction.

We now take the liberty of enclosing to you the result of our deliberations; and although we have not the presumption to suppose that our weak ideas on this momentous subject will be entirely approved of by you, much less by that august body of which you are members; yet we take leave to observe, that the breach has been much widened since our first dispute on the subject of taxation; and as this was the source of all our grievances, so we have the hope that the temptation being taken away, our civil and religious and political rights will be easily adjusted and confirmed.

You will observe, gentlemen, that by a resolution of the House, subjoined to the report of our Committee, we consider the whole as entirely subjected to your better judgment, and each article as far independent of each other as you may think most proper or convenient. We must now repeat to you the common and just observation, that contests for liberty, fostered in their infancy by the virtuous and wise, become sources of power to wicked and designing men; from whence it follows, that such controversies as we are now engaged in frequently end in the demolition of those rights and privileges which they were instituted to defend. We pray you, therefore, to use every effort for the compromising of this unnatural quarrel between the parent and child; and if such terms as you may think best shall not be complied with, earnestly to labour, that at least some terms may be held up, whereby a treaty shall be set on foot to restore peace and harmony to our Country, and spare the further effusion of human blood; so that if even at the last our well-meant endeavours shall fail of effect, we may stand fair, and stand unreproachable by our own consciences in the last solemn appeal to the God of battles.

We are, gentlemen, your most obedient humble servants.

To the Delegates for the Colony of New-York in Continental Congress.

Ordered, That two copies of the above Letter be engrossed, and signed by the President; that one copy thereof, together with a copy of the Report of the Committee of Accommodation, be sent to-morrow by express to our Delegates at the Continental Congress, and the other copy of the said Letter and Report be sent by Francis Lewis, Esquire.

Ordered, That the Commissary deliver any articles which he shall at any time have purchased and have in his custody for the use of the Continental Army, to General Schuyler, on his request, taking his receipt for the same.

A Letter to John Alsop, Esquire, at Philadelphia, was read and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 28, 1775.

SIR: We are informed that you have engaged the refusal of a number of Blankets. We have now to tell you, that for the three thousand men we are desired to raise, we shall want two thousand eight hundred and fifty-two Blankets, and that there are not any to be purchased’ here. We beg, therefore, that you will procure so many, which may be paid for out of the publick money with you.

We are, Sir, your most obedient servants.

To John Alsop, Esq., at Philadelphia.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, signed by the President, and sent by the first opportunity.

The Congress adjourned to five o’clock, P. M.

Die Mercurii, 5 ho. P. M., June 28, 1775.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment. Present:

Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., President.

A Letter from Elisha Phelps, Commissary for the Connecticut Troops at Ticonderoga, &c., bearing date at Albany, June 22, 1775, was read, and filed.

Ordered, That Mr. Peter T. Curtenius be desired to purchase fifty firkins of Butter and ten hogsheads of Molasses, and forward the same to Elisha Phelps, Commissary at Albany, by the first conveyance.

The Warrants for the purpose of raising Troops in this Colony being prepared,

Ordered, That the President sign the same on behalf of this Congress.

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

Die Jovis, 9 ho. A. M., June 29, 1775.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment. Opened with prayers by the Rev. Mr. Bowden. Present:

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

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

For Dutchess County.—Zephaniah Platt, Richard Mont-gomerie, Gilbert Livingston, Jonathan Landon, Melancton Smith, and Nathaniel Sackett.

For Ulster County.—Johannes Hardenbergh, James Clinton, and John Nicholson.

For Orange County.—Michael Jackson and Benjamin Tusteen.

For Suffolk County.—Nathaniel Woodhull, John Sloss Hobart, John Foster, Thomas Wickham, and Selah Strong.

For Westchester County.—Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, Joseph Drake, Robert Graham, and William Paulding.

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

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

For Queen’s County.—Jacob Blackwell, Jonathan Lawrence, Samuel Townshend, Joseph Robinson, Nathaniel Tom, Thomas Hicks, and Richard Thorne.

For Tryon County.—Christopher P. Yates and John Marlett.

For Cumberland County.—Paul Spooner and William Williams.

A Letter from General Schuyler, dated New-York, June 29, 1775, was read.