powder had arrived there, and that he should give your Excellency immediate notice thereof.

I apprehend we can have half a ton of lead cast into ball a day, being provided with moulds sized from sixteen to thirty-two balls to the pound; perhaps twice that quantity, on emergency.

Colonel Burbeck received sixteen half barrels of powder this morning, before the Committee were apprized of it by the Agent of Supplies; but we have given orders for stopping all the ammunition, unless expressly ordered by your Excellency.

Colonel Porter is desired to wait on you this afternoon; and we remain, with great respect, Sir, your most obedient servant,

ELBRIDGE GERRY.

His Excellency General Washington.

P. S. The subject of the letter last evening was of such a nature, that Mr. Cheerer was not made acquainted therewith, which we mention to your Excellency, that your mind may be easy with respect to the secrecy of it.

Orders are to go to Town immediately for powder.

GENERAL SULLIVAN TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Winter Hill, August 2, 1775.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY: I have examined into the state of the ammunition in my department, and find remaining in the magazine, of the powder supplied from New-Hampshire, nineteen barrels, of one hundred weight each, scarcely any balls, and no flints, except what the soldiers are possessed of. They are in general well provided with ammunition for one engagement. We have fifty rounds of cartridges to each cannon that is mounted, which is all the ammunition in the Brigade assigned to your Excellency’s most obedient servant,

JNO. SULLIVAN.

His Excellency General Washington.

NEW-YORK COMMITTEE.

The Committee met, Thursday, August 3, 1775. Present:

Mr. Sears and Mr. Berrian, who were appointed to examine the Baggage of a certain Mr. Sinclair, report, that they found Letters in his possession, which were produced to this Committee, declaring that he is appointed Lieutenant-Governour of Michilimackinack; and also, that a certain Mr. Hamilton is appointed Lieutenant-Governour of one of the Upper Governments.

Ordered, That Colonel McDougall be required to appoint a guard to attend Lieutenant-Governour Sinclair, until the pleasure of the Provincial Congress is known what further, shall be done with him.

On motion, Resolved, That a certain Mr. Archer, who, this Committee are informed, is the propagator of the report that the Continental Congress had passed a Resolution declaring the Colonies to be in a state of independence after the 10th of March next, unless their grievances are redressed, be sent for immediately; and that Captain Fleming, Captain S. Broome, and Captain Lamb, be a Committee to request his attendance.

The Committee appointed to wait on Mr. Archer, returned, and reported that he was not to be found.

It appearing to this Board, from the examination of George Coffin, Master of the Sloop Henry, and the declaration in writing of Mr. Abraham H. Van Vleck, that he, the said Abraham H. Van Vleck, hath, contrary to a Resolution of the Continental Congress, shipped Provisions to the Island of Nantucket, on board the said Sloop Henry, whereof the said George Coffin went Master:

Ordered, That Messrs, Kissam and Yates wait on the Provincial Congress with the above examination and declaration.

BROOKHAVEN (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

Brookhaven, Suffolk County, August 3, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: As well-wishers to our country, we cannot any longer delay giving you an account of the conduct of sundry persons within the limits of this Committee; Parson James Lyon, Benjamin Floyd, Doctor Gilbert Smith, Joseph Denton, Richard Floyd, and John Bayleys, Inn-keeper. These persons have, from the beginning, taken every method in their power to seduce the ignorant about them, and to counteract every measure that has been recommended for the redress of grievances. They damn all Congresses and Committees, wishing they were in hell. They have declared that they will furnish, and it is suspected that they have furnished, the men-of-war and cutters with provisions.

Such conduct, we think, is insufferable, and desire that you would be pleased to direct to such measures as you shall think proper to suppress it.

By order of the Brookhaven Committee:

THOS. HELME, Chairman p. t.

To Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., President of the Congress at New-York.

CAPTAIN DAVID LYON TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

To the Honourable the Provincial Congress for the Colony of NEW-YORK:

The Memorial of Capt. David Lyon humbly sheweth:

That in the beginning of July he was encouraged to expect that he would obtain a Captain’s commission in the service of this Colony, if he could raise a company. That your memorialist immediately began to enlist men, and engaged that if they should be taken into the service of this Colony, their pay and subsistence should commence from the time of their enlistment. That your memorialist was actually at the expense of subsisting a great part of his company from the time of their enlistment to the 18th ult., when they were received into the barracks. That your memorialist did not receive his warrant until the 14th of July, and should he be left to pay the wages and subsistence of his company from the times of the respective enlistments of the men, it will be a very considerable loss to your memorialist. Your memorialist, therefore, humbly prays the Congress to take the same into consideration, and to give your memorialist such relief and answer in the premises, as in their wisdom they think fit and right.

DAVID LYON, Captain.

New-York, August 3, 1775.

The subscribers conceiving Captain Lyon’s case to be extremely hard, humbly request it may engage the attention of the honourable Congress.

To the Honourable Peter V. B. Livingston, President of the Provincial Congress for the Province of New-York.

PETER T. CURTENIUS TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

New-York, August 3, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The enclosed is a note I received from Capt. Lamb; should be glad to have an order from the Congress about this matter. I have waited on Messrs. Murrays about the twenty pieces of duck and sixty pieces of osnaburgh; they request an order from the Congress to the Committee at Elizabethtown.

I have made an inquiry about oars, and can’t find above one hundred and fifty in Town, ninety-seven of which I sent up yesterday; for the remainder, I have contracted