morning, and before it was known that the prisoners had escaped, say, that there was a boat ready to carry off the prisoners, and that he (Warner) would assist in carrying them off; that last night he, as Sergeant, wanted some of the men to turn out on guard, and asked them all round, in the presence of Captain Benson, to go out, and that they respectively denied, and would not go, except three men, two of whom he left at the guns as a guard.

After hearing the whole of the above testimony, a motion was made by Mr. McDougall, and seconded by Mr. Sands, in the words following, viz:

Mr. Chairman: I move that a Sub-Committee be immediately appointed, to take a file of the guard with them, to seize and apprehend John Kelley, John Warner, and Robert Leonard’s apprentice, who was last night on guard; and if the doors of their residence be not opened at the request of the Sub-Committee, that they be authorized to break them open.

Mr. Brinckerhoff then moved, seconded by Mr. Denning, that the following words, to wit: “and if the doors of the residence be not opened at the request of the Sub-Committee, to search the houses for them, that the Sub-Committee be authorized to break them open,” he struck out of Mr. McDougall’s motion. And debates arising upon Mr. Brinckerhoff’s motion, the question being put, it was carried in the affirmative.

The question then being put upon Colonel McDougall’s motion as amended, it was unanimously agreed to by the Committee.

Ordered, therefore, That Mr. Denning, Mr. Brinckerhoff, Mr. Dennis, Mr. De Peyster, Major Abeel, Captain Johnson, Mr. Breasted, and Mr. Wickham, be a Sub-Committee to apply immediately to the officer on guard for a file of Men, and repair with them to the lodgings of John Warner, John Kelley, and Robert Leonard’s apprentice, and them respectively apprehend, and keep in safe custody until further orders from this Committee.

Ordered, That Abraham W. De Peyster, Benjamin Kissam, and John Berrian, be a Sub-Committee to draught and report, without delay, a Petition to the Provincial Congress, praying them to take into their serious consideration some expedient to prevent the inhabitants of any of the neighbouring Colonies coming into this, to direct the publick affairs of it, or to destroy the property or invade the liberty of its inhabitants, without the direction of the Continental or Provincial Congresses, or the Committee of Safety, or the Committee of the County into which such inhabitants may come, or of the Continental Generals, unless there should be an invasion made into this Colony.

Wednesday, November 29, 1775.

At a meeting of the General Committee for the City and County of New-York. Present: John Broome, Chairman.

An order of the Provincial Congress, reciting a Resolve of the Continental Congress, that all damages sustained by this City and County, by the depredations of the Ministerial Troops and Navy, be ascertained, with proper proofs, being read:

Ordered, That Daniel Phenix, Oliver Templeton, and Cornelius P. Low, be a Sub-Committee for said purpose.

On examination of the evidences on the case of the Sentinels suffering the Prisoners to escape:

Resolved, That a proper state of the same be made out, and handed to the Congress immediately.

Watertown, November 21, 1775.

In compliance with an order of the honourable the House of Representatives for the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, passed the 6th of November instant, the freeholders and others who were inhabitants, of the Town of Boston, and were qualified according to law to vote for Representatives in May, 1774, and are now dispersed, are hereby notified and warned to assemble and meet at the Meeting-House in Watertown, on Tuesday, the 28th of said November, three o’clock, P. M., then and there to elect and depute one person, being a freeholder, (if they see cause,) in the room of Dr. Benjamin Church, Jun., lately expelled said House for endeavouring to carry on a secret and criminal correspondence with the enemy, to serve for and represent the said Town of Boston in the Great and General Court or Assembly of this Colony for the remaining part of this year, at their session or sessions to be held from lime to time, until the dissolution thereof.

WILLIAM COOPER, Town Clerk of Boston.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO THEIR DELEGATES IN CONGRESS.

In Committee of Safely at Portsmouth, November 21, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The Committee of Supplies, and others concerned in supplying and paying our Troops, have not as yet been able to close their accounts in such a manner as that we could make out the Colony account against the Continent. We have proceeded so far as to be sure that supplying and paying our Troops in the Continental Army under General Washington, to the 4th of August, with what we advanced to those gone in Colonel Arnold’s detachment, and those now in Canada, under the command of General Schuyler, will amount to upwards of twenty thousand Pounds, lawful money.

To avoid the necessity of emitting more paper money for our own internal charges, we desire you would request the honourable Congress to make us a grant of such a part of the aforesaid sum as they shall see fit, and our accounts shall be transmitted, as soon as a settlement can be made with the persons who have transacted the business.

The numbers of the inhabitants in the several Towns in this Colony, directed by our Congress to be taken by the several and respective Selectmen, and returned under oath, has chiefly been complied with. We send you enclosed the list as returned, except those where only the column for the sum total are filled up, which not being returned, we have set down by the best information we could obtain, and are confident we have done it very near the true number. However, shall forward those wanting when they come to hand, (which we daily expect,) that the whole may be completed by the Selectmen’s returns.

By order of the Committee:

WILLIUM WHIPPLE, Chairman.

To Josiah Bartlett and John Langdon, Esqs.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

St. James’s, November 25, 1775.

At the Court at St. James’s, the 22d day of November, 1775. Present: The King’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas the time limited by His Majesty’s Orders in Council, of the 23d of August and 27th of September last, for prohibiting the exporting out of this Kingdom, or carrying coastwise, Gunpowder, Saltpetre, or any sort of Arms or Ammunition, will expire on the 23d of this instant, November; and whereas it is judged expedient that the said prohibition should be continued for some time longer, except in those cases where, for the benefit and advantage of trade, and for the use and defence of ships trading to foreign parts, His Majesty, by his several Orders in Council of the 13th and 27th of October last, and of the 6th of this instant, has thought proper to permit and allow the exportation of, and carrying coastwise, Gunpowder, Saltpetre, Arms, and Ammunition, under certain conditions and restrictions mentioned in the said orders: His Majesty doth therefore, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no person or persons whatsoever (except the Master-General, Lieutenant-General, or principal officers of the Ordnance, for His Majesty’s service) do at any time, during the space of three months, to commence from the said 23d of this instant, November, presume to transport into any parts out