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1776. Committee of Safety directed to inform the Virginia Delegates in Congress that the state of affairs requires an increase of the Regular Forces to nine Regiments necessary, and requesting they may be taken in Continental pay, 117
  Cargo of the Brig Fanny, taken by Captain Barron, and carried to Cumberland, to be disposed of for the use of the Colony, 117
Jan.11, Ordinance for raising additional Forces, read third time and passed, 118
  Hugh Mercer elected Colonel of the Third Regiment, 118
12, Brig Fanny ordered to be delivered to her owner, Joseph Hewes, of North-Carolina, a member of the General Congress, a known friend to America, and wholly a stranger to the ill conduct of the Captain, 118
  Field-Officers of the seven additional Regiments appointed, 119
13, Petition of sundry Inhabitants of Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, setting forth their sufferings from the Troops under Lord Dun-more, and their apprehension of greater cruelties if our Troops are dislodged from Norfolk, 121
  Report on Representation of Committee of Isle of Wight: John Goodrich declared a friend of the Colony, 122
  Report of the Committee on the conduct of John Goodrich, William. Goodrich, and John Goodrich, Jun.: Bartlett Goodrich and John Goodrich, Jun., have manifestly violated the first article of the Continental Association, 122
  Colonel Howe appeared before the Convention, and examined concerning the present situation of Norfolk, and the neighborhood thereof, 124
15, Inhabitants of Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, exposed to the attacks of the enemy, advised to remove, with their effects; the poorer to be assisted by the publick, 124
  Report of Committee to inquire into the cases of the Prisoners in the City of Williamsburgh: Alexander Gordon and others to be detained as Prisoners of War; Caleb Whitehurst and others to be discharged on parole not to aid Lord Dunmore in future, 124
16, Report of Committee on Petition of John Goodrich, 125
17, Prisoners sent by the Committee of Northampton County to be examined by the, Committee of Safety, 127
  Report of the Committee on Prisoners confined in the Publick Jail: Slaves who have borne Arms in the service of Lord Dunmore to be sent to the West India Islands, and sold, 128
18, Colonel of the First Regiment allowed an Aid-de-camp, 129
  William Finnie elected Deputy Quartermster General; Thomas Bullitt, Adjutant-General; and John Sears, Deputy Adjutant-General, 129
19, Committee to inquire into, and report upon, the conduct of the Officers and Militia of Princess Anne County, 129
  The propriety of opening the American Ports to all willing to trade with us, Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies, excepted recommended to the consideration of the Continental Congress, 130
  All, Publick Money, except his Majesty's Quitrents, now in the hands of Collectors, and other Officers, to be paid into the hands of the Treasurer of the Colony, 131
  Adjourned to April 2, to meet in Williamsburgh 131
  Ordinances passed by the Convention—
  1. For raising an additional number of Forces for the defence and protection of the Colony, 131
  2. For appointing Sheriffs, 141
  3. For amending the Ordinance for providing Arms and Ammunition for the use of the Colony, 141
  4. For reviving and amending an Ordinance appointing a Committee of Safety, 142
  5. For establishing Tobacco Payments during; the discontinuance of the Inspection Law, 142
  6. Amending an Ordinance for regulating the election of Delegates and Committee-men, 144
  7. For establishing a mode of punishment for the enemies to America, in Virginia, 145

CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC.

1775.
Dec.1,		 Address of the Gentlemen, &c., of the City of Carlisle to the King: Nothing on their part will be wanting to counteract the frantick and nefarious machinations of Aristocratick or Republican Traitors, 147
  Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, &c., of Dublin, to the King, 148
1, Letter from Captain Leslie to General Gage, 349
1, Letter from Captain Fordyce to Captain Urquhart, 349
1, Letter from Paul Micheau to the New-York Congress: Committee of Richmond County has not ordered an election of Deputy to the Provincial Congress, 149
1, Meeting of the New-York Assembly prorogued to first any of January next, 149
1, Letter from Cumberland County Committee to New-York Congress, 426
1, Recantation of David Taylor, Jun., addressed to the Committee for the Town of Danbury, Connecticut, 150
1, Letter from Colonel Moylan to Colonel Went-worth; Instructions in regard to captured Vessels, 152
1, Letter from Colonel Moylan to William Watson, giving him instructions as to fitting out the Armed Vessels, 152
1, Letter from General Putnam to General Washington, 180
1, Letter from Dr. Jackson to New-Hampshire Provincial Congress: Recapitulates his services since he entered the Army, in consequence of an intimation that he had been absent a long time: He was engaged in laying out Fortifications, constructing Field Carriages, raising and exercising an Artillery Company making Cartridges, &c, besides attending to his regular duties as Surgeon, 153
2, Address of the Magistrates, &c., of Borough of Jedburgh to the King: They hear with alarm, that the Americans, lost to all sense of justice and gratitude, are proceeding in the desperate purpose of shaking off their dependance on the Mother country, 153
2, Letter from Lord Dunmore to General Howe: A Winter campaign would reduce, without the smallest doubt, the whole of the Southern country to a proper state of obedience, 357
2, Letter from Captain Squire to Admiral Graves, 351
2, Letter from the President of Congress to the Commanding Officer of the Pennsylvania Battalion, requesting him to station a Guard for the protection of the Vessels and Stores on the wharves of Willing & Morris, 154
2, Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington, 154
2, Letter from the President of Congress to Governour Trumbull: The Commissioners sent to consult with General Schuyler are instructed to induce the Men to reinlist for one year from the first of January next: No bounty will be allowed to the Soldiers on reinlistment, 155
2, Letter from the President of Congress to the New-Hampshire Convention, transmitting certain Resolutions of Congress, 155
2, Letter from Theodore Van Wyck to New-York Congress, informing them of the reason of his non-attendance, 156
2, Declaration of Thomas Colden, High Sheriff of Ulster County, acknowledging his opposition to the measures of the Congress, and pledging himself to support them in future, 156
2, Extract of a Letter from-an Officer in the Northern Army: Colonel Ritzema has taken St. Luke La Corne and Major Campbell prisoners: The Garrison at Montreal is weak; but General Wooster is taking measures to put it in the best order of defence possible, 156
2, Letter from a Committee of the Assembly to Governour Trumbull, relating to the payment of the Connecticut Troops at Roxbury, 157
2, Letter from General Washington to Governour Trumbull: The time of the Connecticut Troops does not expire until the 10th instant, when others will be in to supply their place;
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