1776. |
March .12, |
Committee to examine the Troops raised for Canada, at Coos, |
26 |
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Instructions to Colonel Gerrish, to inquire into the causes of the long delay in the marching of Colonel Bedels Regiment, |
26 |
13, |
Committee to confer about officering the Regiment to be raised for the defence of the Colony, |
26 |
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Committee to repair to Cambridge, and request General Washington to return the Powder, |
26 |
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William Moulton authorized to make one hundred pounds weight of Copper Coin, |
26 |
14, |
Officers for the Regiment now to be raised for the defence of the Colony, |
27 |
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Committee on the expediency of granting a bounty to Privateers belonging to this Colony, and to Massachusetts, |
27 |
15, |
Committee to examine the matter of dispute between Colonel Hobart and Colonel Stark, |
28 |
16, |
Committee on the complaint against Colonel Folsom, |
29 |
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Complaints against the Field-Officers of the Sixth Regiment of this Colony, |
29 |
19, |
Bounties and price for Saltpetre, |
30 |
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Colonel Folsom requested to resign, |
30 |
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Persons who have held offices under the former Administration directed to deliver up to the Officers newly appointed all Books, Papers, and Records, |
30 |
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Captain Ladd permitted to make a voyage to the West-Indies, on certain conditions, |
31 |
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Proclamation of the new form of Government, |
31 |
20, |
Complaint against Committee of Safety for Hollis, &c., considered, and postponed, |
32 |
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Persons who, having held offices under the former Administration, refuse to deliver up Records, &c., to be committed to prison, |
32 |
21, |
Committee to provide for building a Powder-Mill, |
33 |
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Committee on the exorbitant prices of goods and necessaries of life, |
34 |
22, |
Committee to recommend persons for a Committee of Safety, to act in the recess of the General Court, |
34 |
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Committee of Safety appointed, |
35 |
23, |
Adjourned to the first Wednesday in June, |
36 |
CORRESPONDENCE, PROCEEDINGS, ETC.
Feb .1, |
Letter from the Cumberland County, New-York, Committee, to the Provincial Congress: They hope the dissensions and animosities, heretofore so prevalent in the County, will, for the future, subside, |
323 |
6, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the New-York Congress: He has requested of Congress to know if the Companies, raised for garrisoning Crown-Point, Ticonderoga, Fort George, &c., were to be considered part of the Continental Regiment ordered to be raised for Canada, |
251 |
8, |
Letter from Nova-Scotia to General Washington, |
936 |
8, |
Petition from a Committee of Cumberland, Nova-Scotia, to General Washington, |
938 |
9, |
Letter from the Committee of Poughkeepsie to the New-York Congress: Not more than three Companies for the five Regiments can be raised in Westchester County, |
291 |
9, |
Letter from Elihu Marvin to the New-York Committee of Safety, |
251 |
10, |
Letter from General Washington to the New-York Congress: Earnestly requests they will, in the most expeditious manner, send him all the Arms they can procure, |
289 |
11, |
Letter from the New-York Delegates in the Continental Congress: The Provincial Congress ought to be the sole judges of its own members, and have the right to decide on admitting the Deputies elected for Richmond County, |
263 |
12, |
Petition of John Willett and others, of Queens County, to New-York Committee of Safety, |
253 |
12, |
Letter from Samuel Tucker to the New-York Congress: Colonel Heard, with a detachment of seven hundred men, is ordered to Staten-Island, to secure it from depredators, |
263 |
1776. |
Feb .14, |
Letter from General Lee to the New-York Congress, proposing the establishment of a Corps of Artificers, |
260 |
14, |
Letter from General Lee to the New-York Congress, requesting a Vessel may be sent to the Hook to reconnoitre the Fleet, |
264 |
14, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the Albany Committee: With their assistance he will endeavour to raise Van Schaicks Regiment, |
294 |
15, |
Letter from General Schuyler to the New-York Congress: For the Regiment now raising for Canada he has neither Arms, Blankets, nor Clothing, |
294 |
16, |
Letter from General Lee to the New-York Congress: Mr. Tryon has grossly abused the indulgence shown him, and inveigled some of the gunsmiths on board his ship; all intercourse with him is therefore necessarily interdicted, |
272 |
16, |
Letter from Colonel Drake to the New-York Congress; asking for his Regiment the Arms taken by Colonel Waterbury from the Tories in Westchester County, |
272 |
17, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to Colonel Heard: The danger apprehended of depredations on Staten-Island is removed, and his services there are no longer required, |
276 |
17, |
Letter from Lord George Germaine to Sir Guy Carleton: Relief will be sent to Quebeck as early as possible, |
939 |
19, |
Letter from General McDonald to General Moore: Demands his surrender, and offers him mercy, |
64 |
19, |
Letter from General Moore to General McDonald: He is not inclined to surrender, but will consult his Officers, |
64 |
20, |
Letter from General Moore to General McDonald: His Officers are unanimous in opinion with him, not to surrender, |
64 |
20, |
Letter from General McDonald to General Moore: It is his duty to conquer, if he cannot reclaim those who have taken up arms against the best of Kings, |
64 |
20, |
Letter from General Lee to the New-York Congress: The Asia and Phenix have seized several Provision Vessels from the Jerseys; feeding our plunderers reflects dishonour upon us, and encourages the enemy, |
287 |
20, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Lee: It is totally impossible to prevent the Asia and Phenix from supplying themselves with provisions; they seized the vessels from the Jerseys because their agents in town were stopped sending them supplies, |
287 |
20, |
Letter from Lord Stirling to the New-York Congress: Requests the Quartermaster may be furnished with the means of supplying the Troops, |
288 |
20, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to Lord Stirling: They cannot supply the Quartermaster with money for subsisting the Troops until the Continental Congress regulates the matter, |
289 |
20, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to General Washington: The Army raised last summer entirely drained them of arms, which have not been returned; they are now raising five Regiments, which will be chiefly destitute; and they have not the disposal of the arms taken from the Tories; hence he will perceive that they cannot grant him any relief, |
289 |
20, |
Letter from President Hancock to the New-York Congress: General Lee is directed to repair to Canada to conduct the military operations in that quarter; and they are requested to supply him with Battering Cannon, Shells, and Mortars, |
297 |
21, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committee of Elizabethtown, in New-Jersey; complaining that they have imprisoned certain inhabitants of Richmond County, in the Colony of New-York, |
293 |
21, |
Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committee for Richmond County; informing them that they have requested the persons confined at Elizabethtown may be sent to Richmond County for trial, |
293 |
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