MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO THE COMMITTEE OF OBSERVATION FOR WORCESTER COUNTY.

GENTLEMEN: Mr. Wallace, and sundry other gentlemen in company, are about to set up and carry on a Salt work on the seaboard in your County. It is, in our opinion, a matter of so much consequence to the publick as to merit every possible encouragement; and therefore request you to forward it, by giving the gentlemen engaged therein your friendly assistance. We are, &c.

To the Committee of Observation of Worcester County.

PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Philadelphia, June 19, 1776.

SIR: The enclosed resolves I do myself the honour of transmitting, in obedience to the commands of Congress, and beg leave to request your immediate attention to the same.

The Congress approve the proposal in your letter, and join in opinion with you, considering the very critical situation of our affairs in Canada, that it will be best to send the two battalions into that Province, although they were not raised with a view to that department.

The late act of your Assembly for engaging one-third of the Militia on the sea-coast, and one-fourth in the interior parts of your Colony, for the defence of your own and the neighbouring Colonies, falls far short of the object Congress had in view by their resolution of the 3d of June. I must, therefore, request you will adopt such measures as in your judgment will be most likely to comply with their requisition of that date. I send herewith the blank commissions, to be filled up agreeably to the resolve of Congress.

I am to request that you will deliver to the Agent of the Council of Safety of Pennsylvania the cannon and trucks ordered by Congress to be taken from thence; and also to inform you that the Congress expect this resolution will be immediately complied with.

I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient and very humble servant,

JOHN HANCOCK, President.

To the Honourable Governour Trumbull, Lebanon, Connecticut.

PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Philadelphia, June 19, 1776.

SIR: Since my letter on the 18th instant, I have nothing further in charge from Congress that particularly relates to yourself, or the Army immediately under your command.

I have written to the Conventions of the Jerseys and New-York, and to the Assembly of Connecticut, on the subject of the resolve enclosed in my last, and have pressed them to a compliance with the request therein contained.

Mr. Bedford, who is appointed Mustermaster-General, I have directed to repair to Head-Quarters immediately, and have delivered him his commission. You will please to appoint a Deputy Mustermaster-General for the department of Canada.

I do myself the honour of writing to Governour Trumbull by this conveyance, and transmitting a copy of sundry resolves respecting his Government. I also forward him blank commissions.

Your several favours to the 17th instant have been duly received, and are at this time before Congress. As soon as I have it in my power, I shall, with particular pleasure, transmit the result.

The carpenters, mentioned in the resolve of the 17th, I shall send to General Schuyler directly from this city.

The enclosed resolves I transmit, to which I beg leave to refer you.

I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient and very humble servant,

JOHN HANCOCK, President.

To His Excellency General Washington.

P. S. I have been so engaged that I have not had opportunity to confer with the other Delegates of Massachusetts on the subject of your letter, but beg leave to refer the matter to you, fully convinced that you will send such officer as will effectually execute your and our wish. I will do myself the honour to address you by next post.

CAPTAIN CHARLES POND TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Sloop Schuyler, Fire-Island, June 19, 1776.

I have the pleasure of informing his Excellency of our taking two prizes—one a ship of two hundred and fifty tons burden, the other a sloop of thirty-five tons, bound to Sandy Hook; the ship, from Glasgow, with one company of the Forty-Second Regiment, was taken by one of Admiral Hopkins’s fleet, who took the soldiers on board, and sent the ship for Rhode-Island. Soon after, she was taken by the Cerberus frigate, and sent under convoy of the above said sloop for Sandy Hook. Remaining on board the ship, five commissioned officers, with two ladies and four privates; total prisoners, twenty. Stores on board ship Crawford —thirteen tierces of beef, eleven tierces of pork, three thousand weight of bread, four puncheons of rum, one hundred barrels of coal, ten firkins of butter, and one cask of cheese. On board the sloop—fifteen casks of molasses, two chests of dry goods, one tierce and one barrel of kegs of powder, one case of flints, and some saltpetre. The ship is part of the way in the inlet, but at present is aground. Pray send directions about the prisoners, as I am short-handed.

CHARLES POND, Captain.

GENERAL SCOTT TO GARRET ROORBACK.

New-York, June 19, 1776.

MR. ROORBACK: I have just received information that the Westchester Company of Colonel Drake’s Regiment will be in town this evening, and the Colonel has prudently sent notice of it, that quarters and subsistence may be provided for them. You are therefore to look to the providing them with quarters, and to wait on the Commissary-General, to whom I now write, respecting their subsistence.

JOHN MORIN SCOTT, Brig. Gen.

To Mr. Garret Roorback, Barrackmaster.

KINGS COUNTY (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE.

In Committee, Kings County, June 19, 1776.

Agreeable to the resolves of the Honourable Provincial Congress, for raising the new levies of troops, was nominated and appointed, Jaques Rapelje, Captain, George Carpenter, Second Lieutenant.

Copy of the Minutes:

JOHN LEFFERTS, Chairman.
B. VAN BRUNT, Col. of Kings Co. Reg.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Albany, June 19, 1776.

DEAR SIR: Whilst I was in conference with the Oneida Indians who returned from Canada, I received a letter from General Arnold, and another from Doctor Stringer, copy of one and extract of the other I do myself the honour to enclose your Excellency, and congratulate you on the success of our arms, as communicated by Dr. Stringer. I could wish he had been more explicit. That we have had the advantage, I believe admits of no doubt, as Captain Livingston, my Aid-de-camp, who is at Fort George, informs me that a Mr. Hide was arrived, who gives much the same account, but adds that General Thompson had been on the point of losing his batteaus, as a party of the enemy had been sent to seize them.

As soon as we had finished the conference with the Indians I returned home, intending immediately to have despatched an express with the intelligence communicated as above, but I was so violently attacked by the fever (and have been for three days successively) that I could neither write nor dictate, nor hardly read your Excellency’s favour of the 16th, which was then delivered me.

The return alluded to in mine of the 12th, I had enclosed in that of the 11th and 12th, of which I only sent you a copy, General Wooster having taken charge of the original, and which I hope has come to hand.

Mr. Deane, whom I sent with the Message to invite the Indians to a conference, is returned from Oneida, from whence the Message and belt were carried on to the other tribes by a trusty Oneida.

The batteaumen of three batteaus, who got off when the others were stopped some time ago upon the Mohawk River by the Committee of Tryon County, are returned; they were