Hon. Colonel Warren, and Mr. Sullivan, be a Committee to prepare instructions for such Delegates.

The Committee who were appointed to consider the expediency of establishing a number of armed Vessels, reported. The consideration of the Report was put off to ten o’clock to-morrow morning.

Hon. Mr. Dexter, one of the Committee who were appointed to prepare Letters to the Continental Congress, New-York, and the New-England Governments, being absent,

Ordered, That the Hon. Mr. Spooner be appointed in his room.

Ordered, That Mr. Sayer be directed forthwith to fill up and deliver commissions to the Officers of Colonel Whitcomb’s Regiment.

Ordered, That Mr. Holten, Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. Colville, be a Committee to consider the Petition of Mr. Ebenezer Prout.

Ordered, That Dr. Whiting, Dr. Taylor, and Mr. Parks, be a Committee to consider some method of supplying the several Surgeons of the Army with Medicines.

The Committee appointed to prepare a Letter to the Continental Congress, &c., reported the following, which was accepted, viz:

May it please your Honours:

The views of Administration having been made evident, by their conduct for some years past; and the late regulations of civil and ecclesiastical polity of Quebeck having clearly discovered an intention to make use of the Canadians as engines to reduce this Continent to slavery, it has been found absolutely necessary, for the preservation of the liberties of America, to take possession of the important pass of Ticonderoga, and to send forward a sufficient force to hold the same against any attempt which may be made to retake it, and to prevent General Carleton from sending off forces By the way of the Lakes to annoy and distress the frontiers. But as we apprehend there never has been any intention to give the least disturbance to our brethren of Canada, to whom we most sincerely wish the full and free enjoyment of their civil and religious rights, we humbly request that your Honours would take such steps to prevent any false impressions which our enemies may attempt to make on their minds concerning our designs, or to remove any such as have already been made, as you in your wisdom shall think most expedient, as we look upon it to be of the utmost importance that there should no jealousies subsist between them and the other Colonies. We also have had the most disagreeable accounts of methods taken to fill the minds of the Indian tribes adjacent to these Colonies with sentiments very injurious to us; particularly, we have been informed that Colonel Guy Johnson has taken great pains with the Six Nations, in older to bring them into a belief that it is designed by the Colonies to fall upon them and cut them off. We therefore pray you would, with all the speed convenient, use you very great influence in guarding against the evil intended by this malevolent misrepresentation. And we have wrote to our sister Colonies in New-England and to New-York, requesting they would make a similar application to you respecting these matters.

We are your most obedient humble servants.

Resolved, That the vote for choosing two persons to repair to the Fortress of Ticonderoga, be so far reconsidered as that there be three persons chosen, instead of two, for that service.

Afternoon.

Ordered, That Colonel Farley, Major Brooks, and Mr. Cross, be a Committee to consider and report what is proper to be done with the Grass growing on the estates of the Refugees at Cambridge, Charlestown, Roxbury, and Milton. Who reported as follows:

The Committee appointed to take into consideration the Resolve of the Committee of Safety relative to certain quantities of Grass growing on the lands of the Refugees in and about Cambridge, have attended that service, and beg leave to report by way of Resolve:

Resolved, That it be recommended to the Committee of Safety that they appoint some person or persons in the Towns hereafter mentioned, viz: Cambridge Charlestown Roxbury, and Milton, to cut the Grass and secure the Hay growing on the estates of the Refugees in the above mentioned Towns, in some convenient place, for the benefit of the Colony, as to them shall seem meet.

Ordered, That Mr. Sullivan, Hon. Colonel Warren, and Colonel Gerrish, be a Committee to consider what is best to be done with respect to a Vessel said to be going from Salem to New-Providence for Fruit and Turtle for the Army at Boston, and report.

Resolved, That Mr. Gerry have leave to bring in a Resolve for preventing the exportation of Fish and other Provisions.

This Resolve was accordingly read and accepted, and ordered to be printed in handbills, and sent to the several maritime Towns in this Colony, and is as follows, viz:

Whereas, the enemies of America are multiplying their cruelties towards the inhabitants of the New-England Colonies, by seizing Provision Vessels, either the property of, or intended to supply them, and also by plundering the stock of Cattle, Sheep, &c, on their sea-coasts:

Resolved, That it be, and it is hereby recommended to the inhabitants of the Towns and Districts in this Colony, that they forthwith exert themselves to prevent the exportation of Fish, and all other kinds of provision, excepting such only as shall be intended to supply the inhabitants of the Colonies aforesaid, and as In the opinion of the Selectmen, and Committees of Correspondence, and Committees of Safety, of the Towns where the same shall be stored, may with prudence be shipped for conveyance by water, for the purpose aforesaid; and it is strongly recommended to the Selectmen, Committees of Correspondence, and Committees of Safety, throughout the Colony, that they cause this Resolve to be strictly executed.

The Committee appointed to consider some method for supplying the Surgeons in the Army with Medicines, reported. The Report was read and accepted, and is as follows, viz:

The Committee appointed to take into consideration a complaint that the Surgeons in the Army are not properly furnished with Medicines, have attended that service and beg leave to report:

Whereas, it appears that there is not as yet a sufficient number of Medicine Chests provided to furnish each Regiment with a distinct Chest; and whereas the Committee of Supplies are making provision for the supplying of each Regiment with such Medicine Chests as soon as possible: therefore

Resolved, That the Committee of Supplies be, and hereby are directed, immediately to furnish the Surgeon of the First Regiment at Cambridge, and also the Surgeon of the First Regiment at Roxbury, each of them, with a Medicine Chest for the present, and that all the other Surgeons in the Armies at Cambridge and Roxbury have free recourse to the said Chests, and be supplied from them from time time as they shall find occasion, until more ample provision shall be made for them. All which is humbly submitted, and the Committee beg leave to sit again.

WM. WHITING, per order.

Ordered, That the same Committee be appointed to examine into the Medical Stores, and make a list of what is necessary for the supplying each Regiment that the same may be laid before the Committee; and that the same Committee consider what Medicines are necessary, and bring in a list of what Medicines are in the Medicinal Store, and that they be directed to report what Instruments are necessary for the Surgeons of the Army.

The Committee appointed to consider what is best to be done relative to a Vessel going from Salem to New-Providence, reported. The Report was read and accepted, and is as follows:

Whereas, this Congress has been informed That a Schooner belonging to the Irvings in Boston, is fitted out under colour of being chartered by one Thompson, who has lately fled from Medford to Boston, but is really destined to Salem, and from thence to New-Providence, to get Fruit, Turtle, and Provisions of other kinds, fort the sustenance and feasting of those Troops who are, as pirates and robbers, committing