any attempt to supply them, and as it is of so great importance to the whole Continent, and very peculiarly so to your City and Province, that they should be supplied and succeed in their designs,) that you will be pleased to forward those tents in the most speedy manner possible, the season being far advanced.

You are pleased to mention our remitting the money for them. You may rely that, if the expense is not seasonably defrayed by the Continental Congress, this Colony will not fail of doing it, although they have already, without grudging, advanced near £150,000, this currency.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, I lately gave Mr. Rensselaer a permit to purchase in and carry out of this Colony, for the use of the Northern Army, four hundred and fifty barrels of pork, although there is a scarcity of it among us; and in pursuance of an advisory caution from his Excellency General Washington, have since wrote and required of Mr. Rensselaer not to suffer any of it to be water-borne to New-York, lest it might fall into the hands of our enemy, but to transport it directly to the North River, almost as near as the sound to any place where it can be purchased. I doubt not you will approve of this precaution, and cause the same pork to be forwarded with all possible expedition to General Schuyhr.

I am, with esteem and regard, Sir, your obedient humble Servant,

JONATHAN TRUMBULL.

To the Honourable P. V. B. Livingston, Esq., President of the Honourable Provincial Congress, New-York.

JEDEDIAH STRONG TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Litchfield, August 21, 1775.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR: Your Honour’s letter of the 7th instant arrived on the 11th, since which have made inquiries through the County, and find I cannot purchase any quantity of tow cloth. Flax was sold here the last season at seven pence and eight pence per pound, and scarcely to be had at any rate; so that there is little or no cloth to be sold at this time of the year, as those few who had greater plenty, or through necessity would spare a little, have probably before now supplied the traders for particular customers in small parcels, &c; and imagining your Honour had likewise made the requisition of the other Commissaries, have not extended the search into other Counties, otherwise than by writing into York Government, to which have received no particular answer.

Mr. Livingston, the Continental Deputy Commissary-General at Albany, and Captain Phelps, have settled the plan of operation, so far as concerns their department, to mutual satisfaction. Captain Phelps is to continue receiving, accounting, and forwarding whatever is purchased and sent him by the Commissary, &c. and Deputies to be employed as before. In consequence, Mr. Livingston has honoured, me with orders for cattle on his account.

I am, may it please your Honour, your Honour’s most obedient and humble servant.

JEDEDIAH STRONG.

Governour Trumbull.

MAJOR ROBERT MAGAW TO GENERAL GATES.

Cape-Ann, August 21, 1775.

SIR: I wrote to you on the 17th instant, that no alarms or appearances of immediate danger had been in this place for some time past. Since the 8th instant, when Captain Lindsay, commander of a sloop-of-war, threw a number of shot into the Town, the inhabitants have remained unmolested.

On Saturday evening last a man-of-war and a tender appeared off this harbour; we expected an attack yesterday; they bore away for the eastward, and disappeared. The inhabitants have nearly completed a small fort, to mount six nine-pounders: their spirit seems equal to their abilities.

We have neither blankets nor shirts with us. Some of our men are sick, owing, I believe, to want of covering in the night.

I have the honour to be, with great respect, your most obedient humble servant,

ROBERT MAGAW,

Major Rifle Bat. Con. Service.

The Hon. METCALF BOWLER,Esq., Speaker.

NEWPORT: Mr. John Wanton, (son of Gideon,) Mr. John Tanner, Mr. Joseph Anthony, Mr. Thomas Freebody.

PROVIDENCE: Mr. John Jenckes, Mr. John Smith, Col. John Matthewson.

PORTSMOUTH: Mr. Job Durfee, John Shearman, Esq.

WARWICK: William Greene, Esq., Mr. Jacob Greene, Capt. Thomas Holdon, Lieut. Col. John Low.

WESTERLY: Joshua Babcock, Esq., Mr. James Rhodes.

NEW-SHOREHAM: Mr. John Sands, Mr. Walter Rathbun.

NORTH-KINGSTOWN: John Northup, Esq., Sylvester Gardner, Esq.

SOUTH-KINGSTOWN: John Potter, Esq.

EAST-GREENWICH: Mr. Job Gardner, Mr. Allen Johnson.

JAMESTOWN: Capt. Edward Hull, Capt. Samuel Carr.

SMITHFIELD: Daniel Mowry, Jun., Esq., Stephen Whip-pie, Esq.

SCITUATE: (None.)

GLOUCESTER: Silas Williams, Esq., Mr. Daniel Owen.

CHARLESTOWN: Joseph Hoxie, Esq., Mr. Samuel Kin-yon.

WEST-GREENWICH: Thomas Gorton, Esq.

COVENTRY: John Rice, Esq.

EXETER: George Peirce, Esq., Jeffery Wilcox, Esq.

MIDDLETOWN: Mr. James Potter.

BRISTOL: Major-General William Bradford, Benjamin Bosworth, Esq.

TIVERTON: Mr. Thomas Corey.

LITTLE-COMPTON: Capt. Thomas Brownell, William Richmond, Esq.

WARREN: Mr. Cromel Child.

CUMBERLAND: John Dexter, Esq., Jeremiah Whipple, Esq.

RICHMOND: Capt. Richard Bailey, Jun.

CRANSTON: Capt. Richard Searle, Mr. William Field.

HOPKINTON: Capt. Abel Tanner, Mr. Thomas Wells.

JOHNSTON: Mr. Emmor Olney, Mr. Ebenezer Sprague.

NORTH-PROVIDENCE: Mr. Joseph Olney, Major Thomas Olney.

BARRINGTON: Colonel Nathaniel Martin, Capt. Thomas Allen.

Josias Lyndon, Esq., Clerk of the Lower House.

It is Voted and Resolved, That all the Neat-Cattle and Sheep upon New-Shoreham, excepting a sufficiency for the inhabitants, be brought off as soon as possible, and landed upon the continent: That two hundred and fifty men be sent upon that island, to secure the stock until it can be taken off: That the remainder of the, two Companies raised in the Counties of King’s County and Kent, which have not yet marched to join the Army of Observation, be employed in the said service: That to complete the number, one hundred and ninety men be immediately enlisted, who