you to counteract your Governour, as to manifest how dangerous he is to the liberties of America. You see he means, and is ordered, to arm one part of your people against the other. We trust that you will, on this occasion, act with due vigour and policy, in your endeavours to defeat so diabolical a design.

The Council of Safety most seriously recommend, that you so manage the communication of this important letter, as to confine it, if possible, only among the friends of American rights, as it might be of the most pernicious consequence if your Governour, or his emissaries, or the disaffected Counties, or people at large, should obtain any particular knowledge of it.

We transmit to you copies of our circular letter, which, if you think proper, may be reprinted; and we also transmit to you a letter to our Delegates at Philadelphia, which we beg you will forward to them from one Committee to another.

COMMITTEE OF INTELLIGENCE OF CHARLESTOWN TO THE COMMITTEE AT SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

Charlestown, July 4, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The enclosed are extracts of letters, and an original, which, having fallen into the hands of our Secret Committee, and being by them laid before the Council of Safety, the Council have desired the Committee of Intelligence to transmit them to you. Your Chief Justice seems to hold a very criminal correspondence, and to show a disposition no less inimical to the liberties of America.

We also recommend, in the most pressing manner, that you keep a watchful eye upon every motion that your Governour can make. We enclose to you copies of our circular letter; and we hope this despatch will arrive in due time to be laid before your Provincial Congress, of whose proceedings we have the highest expectation.*

SOMERSET COUNTY (MARYLAND) COMMITTEE.

Princess Anne, July 4, 1775.

It having this day been made appear, by Doctor John Odel Hart, to this Committee, that on Friday last a Pedlar, calling himself James Dooe, and lately from Scotland, was exposing Goods to sale at Salisbury Town, in this County; that he then and there was called upon by several members of this Committee for certificates, or some other evidence of the said Goods having not been imported contrary to the Association of the honourable Continental Congress; which not being able to produce, he was advised by the said members to attend the weekly meeting of this Committee on this day and place, and abide their determination thereon, and, in the mean time, to forbear offering any of his Goods for sale; all which the said Dooe faithfully engaged to perform; but the said Dooe not having appeared, and this Committee being informed that he did afterwards offer his said Goods for sale: on full consideration of the above information,

Resolved unanimously, That the said Dooe, from his conduct aforesaid, has given great reason to suspect that he is not only inimical to the liberties of America, but that the said Goods, or some of them, have been imported in violation of the Continental Association; therefore,

Resolved unanimously, That we will not, and that the inhabitants in this County ought not, to have any intercourse or connexion whatever with the said Dooe, until he shall appear before this Committee and give proper satisfaction for his conduct above-mentioned; and it is recommended that an inviolable regard be paid to this Resolution. By order of the Committee:

HENRY JACKSON, Clerk.

A List of the Field-Officers, Captains, and part of the Lieutenants of the Regiment of GREEN-MOUNTAIN Boys, consisting of seven Companies.

Field-Officers. Ethan Allen, Seth Warner.

Captains.—Remember Baker, Robert Cochran, Michael Veal, Peleg Sutherling, Gideon Warren, Wait Hopkins, Heman Allen.

First Lieutenants.—Ira Allen, John Grant, Ebenezer Allen, David Ives, Jesse Sawyer.

Adjutant, Levi Allen; Commissary, Elijah Babcock; Doctor and Surgeon, Jonas Fay.

JOHN N. BLEECKER TO THE NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Albany, July 4, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: I received your letter of the 29th ultimo, and have, agreeable to your directions, delivered up all the stores and provisions in my care, an account whereof you have enclosed. I cannot omit observing, that the person in whose care I had left the stores, &c., during my absence, did not think himself justified to deliver them without an order from you, especially as it appears by Mr. Phelps’s warrant that he is only appointed for one regiment, a copy of which is enclosed. A number of different accounts for provisions and necessaries, purchased as well by me as in my absence, have not yet been delivered, which prevents my transmitting an account at present of the expenses which we have been at; but I shall not fail to render an account in a few days. Five barrels of damaged powder from Ticonderoga is sent to Judge Livingston’s mill. The garrisons will be in want of flour very soon, and none to be had here before I delivered up the stores.

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

JOHN N. BLEECKER.

To P. V. B. Livingston, Esquire.

Account of Stores and Provisions delivered over by JOHN N. BLEECKER to ELISHA PHELPS, at ALBANY, July 3, 1775:

Seven barrels of flour, 32 barrels of pork, 1 tierce of peas, 10 tierces of rice, 86 hatchets, 38 pair two-point blankets, 12 pair one-point blankets, 2¼ hogsheads of rum, 40 camp kettles,

JOHN N. BLEECKER.

Colony of CCONNECTICUT:

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esq., Governour and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s ENGLISH Colony of CONNECTICUT, in NEW-ENGLAND, in AMERICA:

To ELISHA PHELPS, Gentleman, greeting:

I do, by these presents, reposing especial trust and confidence in your loyalty, fidelity, and good conduct, constitute you, the said Elisha Phelps, to be Commissary in Albany, and places adjacent above, for the provisions supplied from the Provincial Convention of New-York, and for the Fourth Regiment of the inhabitants enlisted and assembled for the special defence and safety of his Majesty’s said Colony, stationed at Ticonderoga, and places adjacent,

* The Swallow Packet being just arrived from England, William Henry Drayton, Chairman of the Secret Committee, resolved to seize the mail, and, on his way to the Post-Office, on the 2d day of July, he met John Neufville and Thomas Corbet, two members of the Committee of Intelligence, who wore proceeding thither on the same errand. On their arriving at the Post-Office, then kept by Jervis Henry Stevens, on the Bay, at the corner of Longitude-Alley, as Secretary to George Roupell, the Deputy Postmaster, they demanded the mail which had just arrived in the Packet; to which a peremptory refusal was given. They then informed Stevens they would take it by force, if not speedily delivered; to which he answered he should not deliver it. They then took possession of it, and carried the publick letters to the State-House, where the Secret Committee were immediately summoned to meet; and upon examining them, they found the despatches which had been for lord William Campbell, Governour of South-Carolina, and John Stuart, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, had been already forwarded to them; but their enterprise was rewarded, by obtaining despatches from the Ministry to the Southern Governours, regulating their conduct upon Lord North’s conciliatory motion, and to Governour Martin, of North-Carolina, encouraging his plans of raising the people of the four Counties of Guilford, Dobbs, Rowan, and Surry, whom he had reported to “breathe a spirit of loyalty to the King, and attachment to the authority of Great Britain.” All these letters were signed by Lord Dartmouth, five of which were for James Wright, Governour of Georgia; one for the Lieutenant-Governour of South-Carolina; and one for Governour Martin, of North-Carolina. The Resolution of Parliament, also, upon Lord North’s conciliatory motion, was forwarded to the Governours by Lord Dartmouth, in the same Packet.

These despatches were deemed of so much consequence, that copies of them were immediately forwarded to our Delegates in the Continental Congress, and to the Committees at Newbern, in North-Carolina, and Savannah, in Georgia; but the originals were never sent to the Continental Congress, as the publick has been led to believe; for they are now in the possession of the author of these Memoirs, having been in that of his family ever since his father, William Henry Drayton, left South-Carolina, in March, 1778, as a Delegate to the Continental Congress, then sitting at Little-Yorktown, in the State of Pennsylvania.

About the same time the mail was seized, the Secret Committee were also fortunate in intercepting two letters from Sir James Wright, Governour of Georgia, each of them dated 27th of June, 1775; one of them directed to Admiral Graves, and the other to General Gage.— Drayton.