A Letter from the Committee at Albany was read and filed, and is in the words following, to wit:

“Albany Committee Chamber, August 10, 1775.

“GENTLEMEN: We find ourselves once more obliged to trouble you with respect to the soldiers who were taken prisoners at St. John’s, who have been furnished with provisions by Elisha Phelps, Esq., Commissary, (appointed by the Governour of Connecticut,) till a few days ago, when Mr. Phelps went into Connecticut upon business, and left no order with his Deputy to supply them; who, being unwilling to supply them without orders from our Board, spoke to the Chairman, who told him he thought, as the Army was now properly organized, it was their business to give orders concerning prisoners, and referred him to General Montgomery, who (as the said Deputy informed us) found much fault with their insolence, and thought it improper that they should be suffered to remain in this Town, as being a frontier place, where they might do disservice to the publick cause, and therefore declined doing any thing in the affair; upon which, Mr. Phelps’s Deputy made application to us again, advising us at the same time that the soldiers were so insolent as to threaten to take provisions by force, if he refused to supply them. We have come to a resolution to supply them as formerly, till we have your further instructions in the premises.

“We are, Gentlemen, your humble servants.

“By order of the Committee:

“ABRAHAM YATES, JUN., Chairman.

“To the Provincial Congress of the Colony of New-York.”

A Letter from Ramald McDonald, Sergeant of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment, was read and filed.

The state of facts of Abraham Gardiner, ThomasWickham, and David Mulford, the executors of the last will and testament of David Gardiner, deceased, setting forth the loss the Estate of the testator had suffered by late depredations by part of General Gage’s Fleet and Army, was read. They therein set forth, that a number of persons, who have Estates in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, were principal actors in the robbery, and requesting a Letter from this Congress to be wrote to the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts-Bay, desiring them to secure so much of their Estates as shall be sufficient to make compensation to the injured children of David Gardiner, deceased.

The Certificate of the Chairman of the Committees of Southampton, Easthampton, and Shelter-Island, was read. They certify that the executors of the will of David Gardiner, deceased, were not concerned in assisting or consenting to the seizing and taking the Stock off Gardiner’s Island, by General Gage’s Fleet and Army.

The separate Affidavits of Benjamin Miller and William Read, proving the removal of the Stock from Gardiner’s Island by force, and that a number of persons from Massachusetts-Bay were therein concerned, were read; and an account of the damages suffered by the executors of David Gardiner, was also read.

The Muster-Roll of Captain Rufus Herrick’s Company, returned by Mr. Jacobus Swartwout, was filed.

The Muster-Roll of Captain Andrew Billings’s Company, and the Muster-Roll of Captain Lewis Du Bois’s Company, and the Muster-Roll of Henry B. Livingston’s Company, returned by Mr. Jacobus Swartwout, were respectively filed.

A Letter from Jacobus Rosekrans, of the 19th instant, was read and filed, with the Papers enclosed therein.

Resolved and Ordered, That if Samuel Van Veghten declines the service in Captain Rosekrans’s Company, in the Troops of this Colony, that Thomas Lee be appointed First Lieutenant, in the stead of Samuel Van Veghten; and that William B. Alger be appointed Second Lieutenant in the said Company, in the place of Thomas Lee, as First Lieutenant, and William B. Alger, as Second Lieutenant, as soon as the Warrant to Samuel Van Veghten and the former Warrant to Thomas Lee are returned to this Congress.

Resolved and Ordered, That Mr. Jacobus Swartwout be appointed Muster-Master, to muster the Company of Captain Jacobus Rosekrans, in Dutchess County, and that Mr. Swartwout be requested to muster the said Company.

Ordered, That Mr. Peter T. Curtenius forward to the Deputy Commissary-General, at Albany, twenty reams of Cartridge Paper, to wit: ten reams of the best Cannon Cartridge Paper, and ten reams of Musket Cartridge Paper; and that he write to the Deputy Commissary-General to forward it with all possible despatch.

Colonel McDougall moved, and was seconded by Major Williams, that a Committee be appointed to wait on the Governour, to know of him whether he has any intelligence from Boston, of General Gage’s intention to remove his Troops, or any part of them, to this Colony.

Ordered, That Mr. Scott, Mr. Beekman, and Major Williams, be a Committee for that purpose, and that they report to this Congress with all convenient speed.

Ordered, That Mr. Jacobus Van Zandt and Mr. Thomas Randall be added to the Committee to inspect casting Brass Cannon.

A Letter from the Officers and Men of a Company at Mamacoting Precinct was read and filed.

Ordered, That the said Letter be referred to Captain Hornebeck and Mr. Jackson.

A draught of a Letter to General Schuyler was read and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, August 21, 1775.

SIR: We have been honoured with the receipt of your favour of the 15th instant, wherein you inform us that, by letter from Mr. Lewis, you have been advised of the recess of the Continental Congress, and that in future you was to address yourself to us. The copies of your letters of the 28th and 31st ultimo, and the 2d and 6th instant, to the Continental Congress, and the papers attending them, we have duly considered. With respect to the information contained in those letters and papers, it is out of our power to furnish you with any instruction on that head; which we conceive to be the less necessary, as we are assured by a member of that respectable body, now present, that discretionary orders have been transmitted to you, for conducting the department of the publick service under your command according to the dictates of your own judgment; and we supposed those orders had not reached you.

We hope that, before this can reach you, your Troops will be much more numerous than your last letter to the Continental Congress mentions, and that you will have received the several articles of your estimate, which from time to time have been sent you, as fast as they could be provided. Of what remains you have a report enclosed by Mr. Curtenius.

We beg leave to assure you of our readiness to comply, with all possible despatch, with whatever you may think proper to request of us.

We are, Sir, with great respect and esteem, your most obedient servants.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and transmitted by the Messenger from Albany.

A draught of a Letter to the Committee of Albany was read and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, August 21, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: We received your letter of the 10th inst., in answer to which we inform you that it is the direction of the Congress that provisions be furnished for the prisoners, for which you will apply to the Commissary.

We are, Gentlemen, your humble servants.

To Abraham Yates, Jun., Chairman of the Committee at Albany.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and transmitted by the Albany Messenger.

A draught of a Letter to Walter Livingston, Esquire, Deputy Commissary-General, at Albany, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, August 21, 1775.

SIR: By several late letters from General Schuyler, and particularly one of the 15th instant, he complains that he