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men of their respective Towns and places, and that the said Selectmen pay the same to the Receiver-General, Nicholas Gilman, Esq., at Exeter, or to the Receiver-General for the time being, for the use of this Colony. Voted, That this Congress be adjourned to Tuesday, the last day of October next, at three of the o’clock, afternoon, to meet at this place; and that if any thing should happen in the mean time that the Committee of Safety shall think of sufficient importance, that they have power to convene this Congress sooner. NEW-YORK PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. Die Lunæ, 9 ho. A. M., August 7, 1775. The Congress met pursuant to adjournment. Present: Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., President. A draught of a Letter to General Wooster was read and approved, before a sufficient number of Members appeared to constitute a Congress. Soon after, a sufficient number of Members appeared in the Congress Chamber, and the said draught being again read, and a postscript added thereto, the said Letter and postscript are in the words following, to wit: SIR: The Congress are not now sitting. We are under a necessity of applying to you for the loan of two hundred pounds of Gunpowder. Please, Sir, to deliver to the order of Ezra L’Hommedieu and John Foster, Esqrs., two hundred weight of Powder, on account of this Colony, for which the Congress here will send you an, order, and see it replaced as soon as possible. I am, Sir, your humble servant, P. V. B. LIVINGSTON President August 7, 1775. N. B. The Congress are since met, and request you immediately to send off four Companies of your Troops, to march to the east end of Long-Island, to assist the inhabitants there in preventing the stock from being taken off by the King’s Troops, for the use of the Army at Boston. They are there to be under the command of Colonel Phineas Fanning. Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and sent to General Wooster. A draught of a Letter to Colonel Phineas Fanning was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit: SIR: You are requested immediately to repair to the east end of Long-Island, and take the command of the Militia to be raised there, and the Troops that will be sent from General Wooster’s camp, and also the Forces raised by this Colony now on the island, and use your best endeavours to prevent the cattle from being taken off the island by the Ministerial Army, and protect the inhabitants from insult. We depend on your activity and courage, and hope you will be able to give a good account of General Gage’s detachment. We are, Sir, your very humble servants. By order of Congress. To Colonel Phineas Fanning, at Southold. Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and sent by the Messenger from Suffolk County. A draught of a Letter to Mr. John Chatfield, Chairman of the Committee of Easthampton, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit: SIR: We have received your express, and request you would use your best endeavours to prevent the Ministerial Army from taking off the cattle from your island. As Colonel Fanning is near the spot, we desire that he take the command of the Troops that may be raised for this service. Powder, &c., will be sent you immediately, with four Companies from General Wooster’s camp. These Troops are also to act under Colonel Fanning. Orders have been sent to Captain Grennell to march to your assistance immediately. We depend on your activity, and are your humble servants. By order of the Congress. John Chatfield, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, Easthampton. P. S. It is requested that the Officers that you may employ in this service be under Colonel Fanning’s command, and that you would provide the Troops with all necessaries. Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and sent by the Messenger from Suffolk County. Die Martis, 9 ho. A. M., August 8, 1775. The Congress met pursuant to adjournment, and opened with prayers by the Rev. Dr. Auchmuty. Present: Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., President. A Letter from the Committee of Tryon County, dated the 15th ultimo, was read and filed, whereby they inform the Congress that John Fry, Anthony Van Vechten, and Matthew Warmood, the officers appointed to a Company in that County, have declined the service; and that the said Committee have appointed Christopher P. Yates Captain, Andrew Fink, Jun., and John Keyser, Jun., Lieutenants. A Letter from Christopher P. Yates, of the 25th ult., was read, whereby it appears that he had raised fifty-one Soldiers for his Company, and expected to have the Company full in ten days. Ordered, That Warrants be made out to those gentlemen in Tryon County, to wit: Christopher P. Yates, Captain; Andrew Fink, Jun., First Lieutenant, and John Keyser, Jun., Second Lieutenant; and that the said Warrants be dated on the 15th ultimo. Resolved, That the several Committees and Sub-Committees of the different Counties within this Colony be directed immediately to purchase or hire all the Arms, with or without Bayonets, that are fit for present service, (upon the credit of the Colony,) and to deliver them to the respective Colonels in this Colony employed in the Continental service, or their order, for the use of the Continental Army. Resolved, That the said Colonels execute the above Resolution in those Districts where the Committee shall neglect or be unable to comply with the above Resolution. Resolved, That Messrs. Joseph Hallett and Egbert Dumond proceed forthwith to Philadelphia, with the Warrant from the Continental Congress for One Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars, to receive and remit the same in parcels to this Congress, by safe conveyances. And Ordered, That the said Warrant be delivered to those gentlemen, or one of them, by Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., the President of this Congress; and it is requested that the Continental Treasurers discharge the said Warrant with all possible despatch, as the publick creditors are very pressing for their demands. Ordered, That Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., pay to Thomas Pettit, as Doorkeeper of this Congress, twenty Pounds, on account, and take his receipt for the same. Ordered, That Colonel Lispenard, Mr. Brasher, Mr. Journey, Colonel Ten Broeck, Colonel James Van Cortlandt, Colonel Hoffman, Mr. Hobart, Mr. Herring, Mr. Williams, Captain Hornbeck, Colonel Blackwell, Mr. Marlatt, and Mr. Watkins, be a Committee to form and report a proper arrangement of the Militia of this Colony, and that they report with all convenient speed. A Memorial of Philip Van Rensselaer, of Albany, appointed by Robert Livingston, Esq., Deputy Commissary-General, to purchase barrelled Pork for the use of the Continental Army, was read. The said Memorial sets, forth that Pork cannot be purchased in this Colony, and requests that this Congress would write to Governour Trumbull for leave to purchase four hundred and fifty barrels of good merchantable Pork in Connecticut, and have the same shipped to Messrs. Dennis & Dawson, in New-York. Ordered, That Governour Trumbull be requested, and he is hereby requested by this Congress, to permit the quantity of four hundred and fifty barrels of good merchantable Pork to be sent to New-York, to the care of Messrs. Dennis &
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