Ordered, That Cadwallader Colden, Jun., Esq., be served with a copy of the above. By order of the Committee:

ROBERT BOYD, Jun., Chairman.

N. B. The Chairman of the County Committee is the same that was the Chairman of the Joint Committees of New-burgh and New-Windsor, or at least one of that Committee, which I did not know when I addressed my letter to their County Committee.

CADWALLADER COLDEN, Jun.

To Captain JOHANNES A. HARDENBURGH:

You are hereby requested and commanded by this Committee, on sight hereof, to take Cadwallader Colden, Jun., Esq., in your custody, as it appears to this Committee that Mr. Colden is inimical to the American cause, and that you, with a sufficient guard of the men under your command, convey said Cadwallader Colden, Jun., Esq., to the common jail of this county, and that you deliver him to the keeper of said jail; and the keeper of said jail is hereby strictly required and commanded to receive said Cadwallader Colden, Jun., Esq., and him to keep in safe custody, at his own expenses, until from thence discharged by the Provincial Congress or this Convention; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.

By order of the Committee:

ROBERT BOYD, Jun., Chairman.

CAPTAIN HARDING TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBTULL.

Boston, June 27, 1776.

SIR: In your favour of the 21st instant, your Honour was pleased to order me to continue here till further orders. At that time it appeared with some little chance of success; since, I look on the chance to be small. There have been ever since Sunday last ten ships cruising off Boston harbour; two of them men-of-war, eight with Highlander troops. By the best accounts it appears that the troops at Halifax sailed on the 10th instant for New-York&in number one hundred and fifty sail. Shall give your Honour an account of my captures in a few days. At present think there is but little chance here. Hope your Honour will think proper to give me orders to proceed to New-London, by the next post. Your Honour’s orders shall punctually follow. The statement of this action is not in print, for wise reasons. The Captains of the four schooners dispute with each other; one says, You did not fight, and, You did not fight; and so they go on. I have thought proper to libel for three-fourths of the ship George and three-fourths of the brig Annabella, and my proportion of the ship Lord Howe.* What I shall recover I cannot tell until after trial. The ten sail of ships off the harbour is the last bound to Boston by the best accounts.

I am, with due respect, your Honour’s most obedient, humble servant,

SETH HARDING.

To Governour Trumbull.

JAMES SMITH TO NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

St. Eustatius, June 28, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Although an entire stranger, the critical situation of the times necessitates me to address and trouble you with the disposal of five hundred weight of gunpowder, as per bill of lading enclosed, * requesting that the net proceeds may be remitted immediately, if any opportunity offers, of either of the articles annexed for your government. Should this not be the case, I desire the proceeds may be remitted to Mr. Joseph Donaldson, merchant in Philadelphia, with a letter intrusted to the care of the Captain for that gentleman. This is not the first shipment of the article or the last I intend, therefore flatter myself you will, as the guardians of the publick, pay some attention to this small shipment.

I am, with the highest respect and veneration, gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servant,

JAMES SMITH.

To the Honourable the Committee or Council of Safety of any port or place except Philadelphia or its precincts.

The Postmaster-General having empowered and directed me to receive the Quarterly Accounts of the following Offices, and to settle with the Riders, it is expected the several Postmasters will strictly comply with those instructions, that I may be enabled to pay the Riders punctually, for whose services the General Post-Office is now considerably in advance, owing to many of the Postmasters never having rendered any account to the Secretary and Comptroller, R. Bache, Esq., since the first establishment of the American Post-Office. A list of the Offices that are to make their quarterly payments to me: Hampton, York, Petersburgh,

* INVENTORY OF THE CARGO TAKEN OUT OF THE SHIP LORD HOWE. BOSTAN, JUNE 19, 1776.

76 small-arms, 1 ditto, 12 ditto, are 89 muskets; 82 bayonets; 71 cartouch-boxes; 65 bags bread; 1 barrel pease; 2 pounds powder; part of a cask of currants; 1 cask and part of a cask vinegar; 3 hogsheads rum, one part out; 6 casks mess pork; 6 casks mess beef; 17 casks ship’s provisions; 13 barrels oat meal; 11 barrels pease; 1 barrel barley, 1 ullage ditto; 4 barrels flour; 1 barrel herring; 9 bags bread, 2 hogsheads and 1 barrel ditto; part of a cask hair powder; 1 cask canteens and camp kettles; 54 blankets; 1 barrel meal; 2 bags tent pins and mallets; part of 10 coils cordage; a keg molasses; 4 bundles iron hoops; 1 box candles; I bundle hammocks; 6 iron spades; 3 boxes bullets; 3 pair hand screws; 1 iron pot; 1 box containing 93 cutlasses; a box containing a markee and materials; 110 canvass knapsacks, 36 hatchets taken out and carried up.

INVENTORY OF THE CARGO RECEIVED OUT OF THE SHIP GEORGE. BOSTON, JUNE 22, 1776.

20 fusees; 31 small-arms; 6 kegs bullets and shot; 6 bundles paper for cartridges; part of a bag flints; 2 kegs part filled with cartridges; a cask containing a few books and 1 bundle bedding; 3 trunks and 2 portmanteaus; 1 black trunk; 1 bundle; 1 black canteen; 1 red bundle; 1 chest; I portmanteau; 3 casks porter; I cask hams; 3 casks bottled wine; 7 hogsheads and part of a hogshead rum; 361 black shoulder belts; 74 bundles and 1 bag gun straps; 1 field bed and 2 bundles binding; 4 markees; the Quartermaster’s camp equipage; Colonel Campbell’s ditto; a bundle ditto not directed; 3 field tents and materials; 6 bundles tent poles for markees; 12 bundles common tent poles; 7 bundles leather bullet pouches; 3 cartouch boxes; 6 kegs bullets and shot; 23 camp tents; a remnant of ticklenburg; 1 cask and 2 bundles tent-pine; 1 cask tin canteens, and 69 loose; 10 tin pans; 23 camp kettles; 1 package tent stools; 82 canvass knapsacks; 199 hair knapsacks; a bale containing 80 blankets; a bale containing 50 watch-coats; 1 box black plumes; 4 bundles soldiers’ clothing; 1 bundle stockings; 3 pair shoes; 2 bags with belts and knapsacks; 2 pieces plaid; 7 bonnets; 2 pieces and part of a piece duffel; 144 soldiers’ blankets; 33 beds; 85 pillows; a bale of brown paper; 44 hatchets; 1 bundle twine; 1 cask sheathing nails; 2 casks five-penny nails; 1 set small weights; 2 iron spades; part of a cask currants; 15 barrels pease; 6 barrels flour; 2 barrels barley; 9 barrels pork; 27 barrels beef; 19 kegs butter; 15 barrels oat meal; 2 tierces and part of a tierce vinegar; 2 barrels herring; 1 bag rice; 74 bags bread; 14 hogsheads bread; water cask.

INVENTORY OF THE CARGO OF THE BRIGANTINE ANNABELLA, AS FAR AS TAKEN OUT. BOSTON, JUNE 29, 1776.

31 small-arms, by Captain Waters. Received into the store from the sloop as follows: 240 pairs of shoes; a bale of tents, quarters 23; 2 cables 12½-inch; 1 ditto 11-inch, 20 fathom; 1 piece junk; 8 barrels and 3 ullages of oat meal; 1 cask pease; 3 casks pork; 9 casks beef; part of a cask vinegar; 1 box candles; 1 tierce rum; 1 hogshead rum; 8 sails and a bundle old canvass, delivered to Mr. Barrett; 6 iron spades; 2 shod shovels; a piece sheet lead; 1 firkin butter; 1 crosscut saw; 4 tent poles; 5 pack saddles; 2 anchors; 1 small ditto, iron stocked.

Received by brig Defence : 3 barrels and an ullage of flour; 2 barrels pease; 43 cartouch boxes; 17 leather bullet pouches; 18 bayonets; 16 shoulder straps; sundry rigging and clocks; 3 long bolts for shackels; 1 bundle iron hoops; 126 empty casks, small and great.

Received by the Warren : 30 small-arms; 47 cartouch boxes; 16 belts; 42 leather bullet pouches; 25 gun straps; 36 cutlasses; 39 bayonets: 8 boxes candles; 4 pairs shoes; 1 drum; 1 halbert; 1 old ensign.

Received by the sloop: 1 anchor, 11 cwt. 3 qr. 12 lbs.; a parcel of loose bread; 10 water casks; some rigging and blocks; a cabin stove; a piece of junk; a bag containing nails; 8 casks mess beef; 4 ditto pork; 6 casks ships’ provisions; 1 barrel oat meal; 2 hogsheads rum; 1 keg bullets; 3 pack saddles; part of a cask beef; part of a barrel herring; about 7 chaldrons coal.

* Shipped, by the grace of God, in good order and well-conditioned, by James Smith, in and upon the good schooner pilot-boat called the Lovely Lass, whereof is master, under God, for this present voyage,. .. . ., and now riding at anchor in the road of St. Eustatius, and, by God’s grace, bound for Philadelphia, or some port in North-America, to say: ten half-barrels, containing five hundred weight of gunpowder, on the proper assurance and risk of the shipper, and consigned to Mr. Joseph Donaldson, merchant, Philadelphia, or to such Committee or Council of Safety as may be appointed at any other port she arrives at, being marked and numbered as in the margin; and to be delivered in like good order and well-conditioned at the aforesaid port of Philadelphia, &c, (the danger of the seas only excepted,) unto Joseph Donaldson, or such Committee or Council of Safety, or to their assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods settled already, with primage and average accustomed. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said schooner hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, the one of which throe bills being accomplished, the other two to stand void; and so God send the good schooner to her destined port in safety. Amen.