Committee of Westchester County to transport the said forty barrels of Pork and forty barrels of beef, and no more, out of Westchester County, the resolution of the Committee of Safety of this Colony on the 10th instant to the contrary notwithstanding.

Adjourned.

Die Mercurii, P. M., February 21, 1776.

The Congress met pursuant to adjournment.

Present: Brigadier-General Woodhull, President.

FOR NEW-YORK.—Mr. Beekman, Mr. Rutgers, Mr. Prince, Mr. Bancker, Captain Rutgers, Colonel McDougall, Colonel Lott, Mr. Sands, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Smith, Mr. Van Zandt.

FOR ALBANY.—General Ten Broeck, Mr. A. Yates, Mr. Gansevoort, Colonel Nicoll.

FOR SUFFOLK.—General Woodhull, Mr. Hobart, Mr. L’ Hommedieu, Mr. Wickham.

FOR ULSTER.—Mr. Dewitt, Mr. Lefever, Mr. Rhea, Colonel Palmer.

FOR DUTCHESS.—Mr. G. Livingston, Colonel Ten Broeck, Colonel Humphreys, Mr. Schenck.

FOR ORANGE.—Colonel Allison.

FOR WESTCHESTER.—Mr. Paulding, Major Lockwood, Mr. Thomas.

FOR KING’S.—Mr. Covenhoven, Mr. Vanderbilt.

FOR TRYON.—Mr. Moore.

FOR CHARLOTTE.—Colonel Williams.

A draft of a Letter to the Committee of Elizabethiown, relating to persons taken from Staten-Island and confined there, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, February 21, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Complaint has been made to us that Isaac Decker, Abraham Harris, and Minne Burger, inhabitants of Richmond County, are confined in jail under the direction of your Committee, in the Borough of Elizabeth, and that Richard Conner, Esq., is bound under a penalty to appear before your Committee. We know not by whose directions they were apprehended. By the regulations of the Provincial Congress of this Colony, all persons charged with any conduct inimical to the United Colonies, or transgressing any resolves, rules, or regulations of the Continental or Provincial Congress, arc, in the first instance, to be tried by the County Committee of the County in which such delinquents reside. We, therefore, earnestly request that the several persons above named, with all charges and proofs you have or may know of against them respectively, may be returned to the County Committee of Richmond County, to be put upon their trial.

We are, respectfully, gentlemen, your very humble servants.

To the Chairman and Members of the Comrnittge of Elizabethtown.

Ordered, That the same be engrossed, and transmitted.

A draft of a Letter to the Committee of Richmond County on the same subject, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, February 21, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: We have, by a letter of this date, requested the Committee of Elizabethtown to return to the County Committee of your County, Richard Conner, Esq., Isaac Decker, Abraham Harris, and Minne Burger, inhabitants of your County, to be respectively put upon their trials, and return to you any charges and proofs against them that they have or may know of against them, or either of them, with respect to any conduct inimical to the United Colonies, or the having transgressed any resolves, rules, or regulations, of the Continental or Provincial Congress, or either of them.

We request you to put those persons on their trials, and if they, or either of them, should be found to have transgressed in any manner, we doubt not you will do strict and impartial justice, and make report to this Congress of your proceedings in the premises.

We are, gentlemen, your very humble servants.

By order.

To the Chairman of the Committee of Richmond County.

Ordered, That the same be engrossed, and transmitted.

A Letter from General Schuyler, at Albany, dated February 15, 1776, on the subject of the Canada Regiment to be raised, was read and filed, and is in the words following, to wit:

“Albany, February 15, 1776.

“GENTLEMEN: I have the honour to acknowledge your favour of the 31st ultimo, which was delivered me on the 12th by Messrs. Jadwin & Giles, together with twelve thousand five hundred dollars, for which I have given them a receipt.

“If I do not misapprehend the resolution of Congress for levying troops for the Canada service, the raising of Colonel Van Schaick’s Regiment is recommended to you, as well as the providing them with the necessaries to enable them to take the field. I have neither arms, blankets, or clothing. These ought to be immediately procured.

“I enclose you a copy of my letter to the General Committee of this County, which sits to-day. By that you will see what I propose to do. The nomination of such officers as may be wanted, I must leave to that body, which, as it is composed of gentlemen from every part of the County, is more able to judge of those who are likely to raise the men than I can be.

“My nephew, Peter Schuyler, a young gentleman of about thirty years of age, wishes to be employed in some of the regiments to be raised in this Colony, as a Field-Officer. I should be happy, provided he can be recommended, without injuring others that may have a better claim, or giving umbrage.

“I am, gentlemen, with much respect and esteem, your most obedient humble servant,

“PHILIP SCHUYLER.

“To the Committee of Safety, New-York”

A copy of a Letter from General Schuyler on the same subject to the Committee of Albany, was read and filed, and is in the words following, to wit:

“Albany, February 14, 1776.

“GENTLEMEN: On the 12th instant I was honoured with a letter from the Committee of Safety of this Colony, dated the 31st ultimo; extracts of which I enclose you, together with copies of sundry resolutions of the honourable Continental Congress.

“You will perceive by the resolutions of Congress, that the raising of Colonel Van Schaick’s regiment was a service intended for the Provincial Congress or Committee of Safety. But since they have sent me the money, and that the delay which must necessarily be occasioned by refusing my intervention, may be very prejudicial to the service at this advanced season, I will readily, with your assistance, undertake the business, provided you judge it practicable to complete the regiment in this quarter. If not, I would only issue warrants to such officers as served in that corps last campaign, and are willing to re-engage, which, together with such other officers (of which I enclose a list) to whom warrants were issued for raising troops, without designing them particularly for any regiment, (and three of which have already inlisted near three companies,) will, I apprehend, nearly complete the number of officers; a list of which I would transmit to the Colony Congress, that they may be sufficiently informed to appoint the remainder.

“Colonel Van Schaick has my orders to inform himself which of his officers on this side of Canada will re-engage. Those in Canada will be provided for there.

“I am, gentlemen, with respect and esteem, your most obedient humble servant,

“PHILIP SCHUYLER.

“To the Committee of the City and County of Albany.“

A Letter from Colonel Burtenius was read and filed, and is in the words following, to wit:

“February 21, 1776.

“GENTLEMEN: Mr. Holsted, Quartermaster of the Jer sey Regiment, has applied to me for three hundred and fortyfour wooden bowls, twelve pair of sheets for the Hospital, and three hundred and forty-four wooden, spoons; also, a few old blankets for the sick. I should be glad to have a written order to deliver them.

“I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,

“P. T. CURTENIUS.

“To the Provincial Congress, New-York.”

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