Ordered, That Mr. Pye be requested to inquire of some gentlemen of the Committee of Elizabethtown, now in New-York, whether they can give any information of the said Powder; and also, that Mr. Pye, if he find it requisite, go to Bull’s Ferry, to receive and forward the said Powder to Albany, if it should be there.

A Letter from General Wooster was read and filed, and is in the words following, to wit:

“Camp near New-York, July 7, 1775.

“SIR: We have among the Connecticut Troops a number of apprentices and indented servants, who ran away from their masters in this City, and have enlisted themselves and received their pay in Connecticut. Since our arrival at this place many of them have been detained in Town by their masters. As the Governour of Connecticut has subjected me, and the Troops under my command, to the direction of the Continental and this Provincial Congress, I desire you to take the opinion of your Congress, and advise me what plan of conduct I shall pursue with regard to such persons, and you will oblige, Sir, your humble servant,

“DAVID WOOSTER.

“To Peter Van Brugh, Livingston, Esq., President of the Provincial Congress.”

The Congress took the same into consideration, and resolved to advise General Wooster that the Masters of such Servants or Apprentices, belonging to this Colony, as are enlisted in his Troops, be restored to their Masters; provided the Masters pay to him the disbursements, deducting therefrom the pay, if any be due.

A draught of a Letter to General Wooster, signifying the sense of this Congress on the subject of Apprentices and Servants, was read and approved.

The Committee appointed to wait on Mr. White returned, and reported that Henry White, Esquire, informed them that he had received the former letter from Governour Martin, mentioned in the letter of Governour Martin now before this Congress; that he never sent the standard therein mentioned, and did not intend to send it; that he has at present mislaid Governour Martin’s first letter; that he will send the letter when he can find it to this Congress; that he is not privy to Governour Martin’s intentions as to the matters suspected from his letter; and that he will send in writing to this Congress an account of the correspondence and transactions between him and Governour Martin, and attest it upon oath if desired.

A Sub-Committee from the Committee of the City and County of New-York being at the door, were admitted, and delivered to the President a Letter (which was read) from the Committee of Elizabethtown, setting forth that William McLeod, an Ensign in the Fifty-Second Regiment of Foot, now at Boston, who had resided at or near Elizabethtown for some time past, was about embarking for Boston in order to join his Regiment; that the said Committee of Elizabethtown had stopped his baggage, and that he was now in the City of New-York waiting for a passage to Boston.

The Congress took the same into consideration, and thereupon

Ordered, That the Committee of the City and County of New-York do take the body of William McLeod, Ensign in the Fifty-Second Regiment of Foot at Boston, and send him in safe custody to the Committee of the Town of Elizabethtown. And it is recommended to the Committee of New-York not to use unnecessary violence, but to treat him with all possible lenity as a gentleman and soldier.

Ordered, That Mr. Morris, Mr. Brasher, Mr. McDougall, and Major Williams, be a Committee to form a proper method for an arrangement of the Militia of this Colony, and proper Instruction for the Militia of this Colony, and that they report with all convenient speed.

Major Williams and Doctor Spooner, agreeable to a notice for that purpose given yesterday, proceeded to inform the Congress of the state of Cumberland County, which they represent; and after some time spent therein,

Ordered, That Mr. Morris, Mr. Low, and Mr. Silvester, be a Committee to receive information of the Members of that County, and of any other persons, of the state of that County, and report thereon to this Congress.

Whereas this Congress, on the fourth day of July instant, published a Resolution, ordering that the Arms belonging to the Corporation of this City be returned to Messrs. Abraham Walton and Isaac Sears, who were appointed a Committee to receive them; and whereas few of those Arms have as yet been returned, and it is essentially necessary for the publick service that a compliance with that order be no longer delayed:

Resolved, That every person to whom such Arms were originally delivered, or who is now possessed of any of them, and does not on or before Friday, the fourteenth instant, deliver the same to the Committee aforesaid, or their order, at the Upper Barracks, shall be deemed and treated as an enemy to his Country.

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

Die Saturnii, 9 ho. A. M., July 8, 1775.

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

For the City and County of New-York.—Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esquire, President; Isaac Low, Alexander McDougall, Leonard Lispenard, Joseph Hallett, Abraham Walton, Abraham Brasher, Isaac Roosevelt, John De Lancey, Samuel Verplanck, Richard Yates, David Clarkson, Benjamin Kissam, Jacobus Van Zandt, and Isaac Sears.

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

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

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

For Orange County.—Michael Jackson.

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

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

For King’s County.—Henry Williams, John Vanderbilt, and Theodorus Polhemus.

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

For Queen’s County.—Zebulon Williams, Joseph French, Nathaniel Tom, and Richard Thorne.

For Cumberland County.— Paul Spooner and Wm. Williams.

A Letter from Henry White, Esq., was read, and is in the words following, to wit:

“Saturday, July 8, 1775.

“SIR: Three gentlemen of the Provincial Congress called upon me with an intercepted letter from Governour Martin of North-Carolina, dated the thirteenth June, to send him a royal standard from hence. They desired to know if I had complied with his request, and whether I could inform them respecting the measures he was now pursuing. In answer to which I have to observe, that he some time ago wrote to me to send him such a standard, which I declined to do, lest it might be disagreeable to the people of this place; and I wrote him to that purport, which letter I apprehend miscarried, or he must have received it before the thirteenth of last month. With regard to the steps he is now taking in his Government I am utterly unacquainted; he has not communicated to me any particulars. Governour Martin is a gentFleman I am intimately acquainted with, and have transacted business for him ever since he has been at North-Carolina, which accounts for his applying to me for the above standard. I imagine it will be believed that I did not solicit the commission. I am, Sir, your most humble servant,

HENRY WHITE.

“To Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq.”

A draught of a Letter to Charles Thomson, Esquire, in answer to his Letter read yesterday, was read, and approved of, and is as follows, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, July 8, 1775.

SIR: The Congress received yours enclosing Governour Martin’s letter to Mr. Henry White, and immediately