Connecticut Committee of Safety: Direct the fitting an Armed Vessel, according to the Resolve of the Assembly,

Agree to charter a small, swift sailing Vessel, for a Spy-Vessel, to run and cruise from place to place, discover the enemy, carry intelligence, &c.,

Officers of the Armed Vessel (the Brig Minerva) appointed,

Committee to make further arrangements for fitting out the Vessel,

Two Companies stationed at New-London, on the request of the Committee of that place,

Captain Niles appointed to take command of the Spy-Vessel,

Hostile attacks on the Sea-Coasts being apprehended, the Governour is requested to direct a number of men to be equipped and held in readiness for service,

Committee to purchase and fit out the Spy-Vessel,

Orders sent to Major Lattimer, at New-London, to see that regular Watches and Guards are kept about his Camp; that his Soldiers are properly exercised, instructed, and disciplined; and kept clean, out of idleness, and bad practices,

Embargo continued, by Proclamation of the Governour, to the 20th of October next,

Committee to direct the building a Battery at Waterman’s Point, in New-London River,

Begun and held at Meeting-House in Water-town,

List of the Representatives,

Samuel Freeman chosen Clerk, and sworn into office,

Divine Service performed by the Rev. Mr. Gordon,

James Warren chosen Speaker,

Committee to get the Sermon, delivered this day by Mr. Gordon, printed,

Met and adjourned, this having been appointed, by the Continental Congress, to be observed as a Day of Fasting and Prayer throughout the Continent,

Counsellors for the Territory of Massachusetts-Bay, for the Colony of New-Plymouth, for the Province of Maine, and for the Territory lying between the River Sagadahock and Nova-Scotia, elected by the House,

Committee on a Letter from Horatio Gates, Adjutant-General of the American Army,

Reconsidered, and the Letter of Mr. Gates referred to the Council,

Committee on a Letter from James Sullivan to the President of the late Congress,

Petition from James Greenleaf and others, relating to the cruel confinement of the Inhabitants of Boston,

Committee to consider the circumstances of the Soldiers raised by this Colony,

Committee on a Petition from Fryburgh, and on the Proceedings of a Meeting of the Town of Pownalborough,

Committee of Safety requested to furnish General Washington’s House,

Rev. Mr. Gordon elected Chaplain to the House,

Petition of Levi Sheppard and Ebenezer Hunt, read and committed,

Committee to prepare a Letter to Generals Thomas, Whitcomb, and Frye, desiring them to continue in the service of the Colony,

Committee to repair to Salem, to provide for the Poor and other Inhabitants of Boston,

Report on the Petition of William Greenleaf, &c., read, considered, and recommitted,

Committee on a Petition from St. John’s,

Committee on a Letter from General Ward, requesting suitable accommodations for himself and attendants,

Committee to examine all Accounts and Muster Rolls laid before the House,

Petition of Colonel James Easton,

Committee on this Petition, and on the Report of

a Committee of the late Provincial Congress on Colonel Easton’s representation of the state of his Regiment,

Committee to prepare an Answer to a Letter from the Committee of Saybrook,

Report of the Committee on the Petition of James Greenleaf, &c., again read and accepted, -

Resolutions providing for the removal of the Inhabitants of Boston,

Committee to consider the terms on which the Town of Salem will consent that the Hospital there shall be used for the reception of the Poor of Boston,

Committee to confer with General Ward on the subject of his Letter to the House,

Vote reconsidered, and the Report of the Committee on his Letter read, amended, and accepted,

Committee to inquire of General Ward if it would not be as agreeable to make provision for himself,

Committee to complete the Powder-House, begun by order of the late Provincial Congress,

Committee of Safety of Salem made Overseers of the Poor of Boston, on their removal to the Hospital in that place,

Committee to wait on General Ward instructed to desire him to provide himself with proper accommodations,

Protest of a number of the Inhabitants of Swanzey against the election of Colonel Jerathmeel Bowers, read and rejected,

Committee to consider a Letter from the Committee of Deer-Island, relative to arrival of a Man-of-War, and other Vessels, at Penobscot,

Report of the Committee on the Petition of Colonel Easton, read and accepted,

Committee to prepare an Address to the Council, on the Petition from Deer-Island,

Committee to consider the state of the Armourers,

Report of the Committee on the Petition of Sheppard and Hunt, read and recommitted,

Petition of Charles Miller; read and committed,

Committee to consider a new emission of Bills of Credit,

Address to the Council on the critical condition of the Inhabitants of the Eastern parts of the Colony,

Report on the Petition of Sheppard and Hunt, again considered, and accepted,

The two Votes passed yesterday, on General Ward’s Letter, reconsidered, and Major Hawley directed to bring in a Resolve expressive of the sense of said Votes,

Committee to examine what powers are vested in the Committee of Supplies,

Petition of the Committee and Selectmen of Bridgewater: read and committed,

Committee on a Petition of the Committee of Inspection for the East Precinct of Pownalborough, relative to the conduct of Abiel Wood,

Committee on a Petition of a number of Inhabitants of the Town of Pownalborough, stating their objections to the choice and person of Thomas Rice, a member of this House,

Petition of Luke Perkins,

Committee to procure immediately two hundred Axes for the use of the Army,

Committee to devise means for the payment of the Soldiers who have not received their advance pay,

Petition from the Town of Bristol,

Henry Gardner chosen Treasurer and Receiver-General,

Committee to prepare a Resolve, requiring the Treasurer and Receiver-General to give Bond,

Committee to procure the Journals of this House, for five or six years back,

Committee to wait upon General Washington. and request him to inform this House; what his instructions are with respect to giving out Commissions,

Committee appointed to wait on General Washington, directed to request him to lay the Muster-Rolls of the Massachusetts Forces before this House,

Committee to consider a Petition of Aphiah Jones,