1775.

Letter to the New-York Delegates in the Continental Congress, recommending Ebenezer Hazard for Postmaster of the City of New-York,

William Duer, appointed Deputy Adjutant-General,

Letter to the President of the Continental Congress, informing him of their appointment of Deputy Adjutant-General,

Letter to the New-York Delegates in the Continental Congress,

Military Committee appointed, for fourteen days, with full power, during that time, to order and dispose of all things whatsoever, relating to or concerning the Troops raised, or to be raised, in this Colony,

Letter to the New-York Delegates in the Continental Congress, on the subject of Tea,

Letter to the New-York Delegates in the Continental Congress, on the subject of Flaxseed,

Letter to Governour Trumbull, on furnishing Tents for Colonel Hinman’s Regiment,

Letter to Wolvert Ecker and Samuel Brewster, Chairmen of the Committees of New-Windsor and Newburgh, informing them that Morrell, Patrick and Purdy are released from confinement,

Peter T. Curtenius directed to forward one thousand Tents to Colonel Hinman, for the Connecticut Troops at Ticonderoga,

Letter to the Committee of Correspondence for Easthampton and Southold,

The Congress informed by the Recorder that the Boat which had been building for the Asia, by order of the Committee of Safety, was sawed to pieces, and entirely destroyed,

Letter from the New-Brunswick, New-Jersey, Committee,

Motion by Mr. Low, that the persons who destroyed the Barge belonging to His Majesty’s Ship Asia are base violators of the Association subscribed by the Congress,

Mr. Low’s motion to be considered on Friday next,

Queries presented to the Congress by the Company Officers of the First Regiment,

Answers to the Queries,

Chairman of the New-York Committee requested to summon the Committee immediately, to consider the papers relating to George Coffin’s Vessel and Cargo,

Letter from Peter T. Curtenius,

Letter to the Committee of Elizabethtown, New-Jersey,

Letter to General Washington, for blank Commissions for the Officers,

Patrick Sinclair, having accepted the office of Lieutenant-Governour of Michilimackinack, is ordered by the Congress not to proceed thither, and is sent on his Parole to Suffolk County,

Permission given to Mr. Harper, of Harpersfield, near Cherry Valley, to purchase one hundred weight of Gunpowder, at the Mill of Robert R. Livingston, on his paying Money for the same,

Patrick Sinclair, refusing to sign the Parole, is placed under Guard,

Motion by Mr. Sears, that Capt. Patrick Sinclair be sent to Hartford, in Connecticut, rejected,

Letter from Philip Livingston and George Clinton, at Philadelphia, informing them that Money will be forwarded immediately,

Members who are absent by order of this, or the Continental Congress, to be counted as present, whenever a vote is taken, the Members present voting for the County,

Mr. John De Lancey reprimanded by the President for language used to Mr. Scott, a Member, while the Congress was sitting,

Mr. De Lancey and Mr. Scott directed to let the dispute drop, and proceed no further in it,

Committee appointed to consider of the Ways and Means best adapted to discharge the Debts already contracted, or which may hereafter be contracted for the exigencies of the Colony, in its present critical and alarming situation,

John Foster permitted to ship a cargo of Live Stock to the West-Indies, that he may be thereby enabled to procure Military Stores,

1775.

Pay and Clothing allowed to the Troops enlisted by this Colony,

Letter from the President of the Continental Congress, dated August 1, 1775,

Proceedings on the Resolutions moved by Mr. Low, on the 2d instant, with respect to the insult offered to this Congress, by destroying the Boat belonging to the Asia,

Mr. Melancton Smith’s motion to reject the Resolutions, rejected,

Resolutions adopted, and with their preambulary recitals or introductions, as amended and agreed to, ordered to be entered on the Journals as part of the proceedings of Congress; and be published in the Newspapers,

Committee of the City of New-York requested to take the proper measures for discovering the persons who sawed and destroyed the Boat lately ordered to be built for the use of His Majesty’s Ship Asia,

Secretary directed to procure a certified copy of the rates of the pay of the Troops in the Continental Army, from a Colonel downwards,

The Congress convened in the State-House, at Philadelphia,

List of the Delegates from the several Colonies,

Peyton Randolph chosen President, and Charles Thomson Secretary,

Rev. Mr. Duché requested to open Congress with prayers to-morrow morning,

Congress opened with prayers by the Rev. Mr. Duché,

Credentials of the Delegates read and approved,

Doors to be kept shut during the time of business, and Members under the strongest obligations of honour to keep the proceedings secret,

Letter from the Agents, William Bollan, Benj. Franklin and Arthur Lee, dated London, February 5, 1775, laid before Congress and read,

Papers accompanying the Letter of the Agents, submitted to Congress this day, (Note,)

Letters and Papers from the Massachusetts Congress, submitted by Mr. Hancock,

Letter from the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts to the American Continental Congress, dated May 3,

Resolves of the Massachusetts Congress, passed May 3, for borrowing One Hundred Thousand Pounds, enclosed in the preceding Letter,

Depositions and Address ordered to be published,

State of America to be considered on Monday next in Committee of the Whole,

Letter from Massachusetts referred to that Committee,

Met and adjourned,

Lyman Hall admitted as a Delegate from the Parish of St. John’s, Georgia,

Mr. Hall’s Credentials—Address of the Inhabitants of St. John’s Parish to Congress; their Letter of February 2, to the Committee of Correspondence in Charlestown, South-Carolina;—answer of the Committee, dated February 9; and choice of the Delegate, March 21, 1775,

Petition from Frederick County, Virginia,

Order of the Day read, and, after some debate, postponed,

Application from New-York for advice, how to conduct themselves with regard to the Troops expected there,

Delegate from St. John’s, in Georgia, to have the same privileges as the other Delegates, except voting when a question is taken by Colonies,

Credentials of Delegates from Rhode-Island,

Advice to the Inhabitants of New-York to act on the defensive, if the Troops, expected from England, arrive,

Committee appointed to consider what Posts should be occupied in New-York,

State of America to be further considered to-morrow,

Memorial from Robert and John Murray,

Congress in Committee of the Whole, on the state of America,

Exportation to Quebeck, Nova-Scotia, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Georgia, (except the Parish of