Ordered, therefore, That Ethan Allen be admitted. He delivered a List of Officers, which is filed.

Seth Warner was also admitted at the same time.

Ethan Allen and Seth Warner having been heard, they withdrew.

Ordered, That in consequence of a recommendation from the Continental Congress, a body of Troops, not exceeding five hundred men, officers included, be forthwith raised, of those called Green-Mountain Boys; that they elect all their own Officers, except Field-Officers; that Major General Schuyler be requested to forward this Order to them, and receive from them a list of such Officers as they shall elect, to be communicated to this Congress; and that General Schuyler be further requested, without delay, to procure the sense of those Troops concerning the persons who will be most agreeable to them for Field-Officers, and to make other inquiry; and upon the whole advise this Congress what persons will be most proper to be appointed as Field-Officers to command those Troops; that the said Troops, when raised, be considered as an independent body, their Field-Officers taking rank after the Field-Officers of the other Troops to be raised by this Colony for the Continental service; that their corps of Officers consist of one Lieutenant-Colonel, one Major, seven Captains, and fourteen Lieutenants; and that the General be furnished with blank Warrants, to be filled up by him agreeable to such election, as above mentioned.

The County of Albany, and Mr. John De Lancey, dissented to the above Order and Resolve.

Ordered, That a certified copy of the above be given to General Schuyler by the Secretaries.

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

Die Martis, 5 ho. P. M., July 4, 1775.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment. Present:

Leonard Lispenard, Esq., President pro tempore.

A Letter from General Schuyler was received and read, and is in the words following:

“New-York, July 4, 1775.

“GENTLEMEN: As I am ordered by the Continental Congress to liquidate the accounts of the people employed at the reduction of Ticonderoga, that they may be paid; and as Messrs. Allen and Warner were concerned, there will be money due to them; and as they are in want of some, I could wish you to advance them thirty Pounds, and to make it a Continental charge, for which shall debit them in their account with the publick.

“I am, gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant,

“PH. SCHUYLER.

“To the Gentlemen of the New-York Provincial Congress.”

Thereupon, an Order was made to the President, in the words following, to wit: Whereas, General Schuyler has requested that this Congress would advance thirty Pounds to Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, and make a Continental charge thereof, for which he will debit them in their account with the publick,

Ordered, That Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esquire, be requested to advance thirty Pounds to the said Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, and take their receipt for the same.

Ordered, That every person who has any one or more of the Muskets, Bayonets1, and Accoutrements belonging to the Corporation of the City of New-York, and lately delivered out of the City-Hall of the said City, bring the same to the house of Abraham Van Dyck, in the Broadway, and deliver them to Messrs. Abraham Walton and Isaac Sears, or their order, who are appointed a Committee to receive the same; and that each person deliver to those gentlemen, at the same time, an account of the expense they have been at for Iron Ramrods for the said Muskets, that this Congress may make provision for the payment thereof; and

Ordered, That this Order be published in handbills, and distributed about this City.

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

Die Mercurii, 9 ho. A. M., July 5, 1775.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment. Opened with prayers by the Rev. Mr. Gano. 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, Richard Yates, David Clarkson, Benjamin Kissam, John Morin Scott, John Van Cortlandt, John Marston, and Isaac Sears.

For the City and County of Albany.—Peter Silvester and Francis Nicoll.

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

For Ulster County.—Johannes Hardenbergh, James Clinton, and Egbert Dumond.

For Orange County.—Michael Jackson and Benjamin Tusteen.

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

For Westchester County.—Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, Joseph Drake, Philip Van Cortlandt, Robert Graham, and William Paulding.

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

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

For Queen’s County.—Jacob Blackwell, Jonathan Lawrence, Zebulon Williams, Joseph French, Joseph Robinson, Nathaniel Tom, and Richard Thorne.

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

For Cumberland County.—Paul Spooner and William Williams.

Joseph French, Esq., one of the members of Queen’s County, who hitherto has neglected to attend this Congress, appeared and took his seat; and was charged by the President from the chair, that sundry matters in this Congress are to be kept secret, particularly all such as relates to Ticonderoga and the Northern Posts.

Colonel McDougall informed the Congress that a number of men enlisted in this City, as part of the Troops to be raised in this Colony, are ready to be encamped, but that tents and other necessaries for the Officers, and many articles for the Soldiers, are yet wanting; that part of the upper Barracks are ready for use, and that a Muster-Master is wanting to muster the men now enlisted.

Ordered, That Mr. Abraham Brasher and Dr. Lynn proceed immediately to muster the men who are enlisted; and that such men as pass muster, and such others as shall be enlisted, be lodged in the Barracks in this City, until their tents and other necessaries are ready, or until the further order of this Congress.

Ordered, That Mr. Curtenius wait on Doctor John Jones and Doctor Treat, and request them to make and deliver to him a list of such Medicines and Instruments as will furnish a complete Medicine-Chest for a Regiment of seven hundred and fifty men, officers included; and that Mr. Curtenius, when he has received such list, provide a Medicine-Chest agreeable thereto.

Mr. Curtenius attending at the door, was called in, and produced to the Congress an order of General Schuyler to supply sundry utensils (which are mentioned in a list attending the said order) for an Armourer of the Connecticut Troops.

Ordered, That Mr. Curtenius supply the sundry articles mentioned in the said list and order, to the said Armourer; and that he keep a separate account of the amount of those articles, and charge them as supplied to the Troops of the Colony of Connecticut, that it may be placed to the account of that Colony in a settlement of the Continental expenses.

Ordered, That Mr. Curtenius be supplied with a copy of the List or Inventory of Stores sent to this Congress on the 4th instant; and that he be requested to compare that Inventory with the Inventories of the Provisions and Stores already forwarded to Albany; and that he purchase on the