To Capt. Robert Drummond £1 14s. 11d., in full for Nicholas Roche’s Account of expenses and Medicines for the Militia when marching to Long-Island.

To Frederick Frelinghuysen £61 13s. 2d., being the balance due him, and men by him inlisted for the Eastern Company of Artillery, who were discharged upon his resignation.

To Major John Dunn 27s. 3d., in full for his Account of expenses to Monmouth Court-House by order of the Convention.

To Dr. Moses Bloomfield £5 11s. 5d., in full of his Account of Medicines and attendance on Captain Neel’s Artillery Company.

To Jonathan Bowen 10s., in full of his expenses to Salem.

To Colonel George Taylor, Esq., £176 18s. 2d., in full of the balance due him as Commissary, and reviewing Captain Stillwell’s Company.

To Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Forman £79 11s. 7d., in part for his Account for himself and the officers and men under his command, in pursuit of the disaffected in Monmouth County, by order of this Convention.

To Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Forman £15 10s. 3d., in full of the balance due for his Militia marching in the County of Monmouth with Colonel Charles Read, in apprehending disaffected persons.

To Captain Robert Rhea £4 4s. 3d., in full of his Account for guarding Thomas Okeson from Monmouth to Burlington.

To Josiah Franklin Davenport £3, in full of his Account for boarding William Franklin, Esq., and his servant, one week.

To Captain William Kelsey £30, towards subsisting his Company on their march from Cumberland to New-York, to join the Brigade under General Heard.

To Colonel Charles Read and Major Haight £200 6s. 2d., in full of their Accounts for the second expedition with the Militia of Burlington into the County of Monmouth in pursuit of the disaffected.

To Lieutenant-Colonel Bowes Read the sum of £201, towards defraying the expense of removing the Continental Prisoners from Burlington to York County, in Pennsylvania, with their Baggage.

To John Schurman, Chairman of the County Committee of Middlesex, the sum of £25, for the purpose of paying the price of hiring Baggage-Wagons, Expresses, &c.

To Dr. Thomas Wiggins, Chairman of the Committee at Princeton, the sum of £25, for forwarding expresses, &c.

To Colonel Joseph Borden, Esq., the sum of £54, in full of his account for fourteen Wagons employed in transporting the Baggage of Lieutenant-Colonel Brodhead’s Battalion of Riflemen from Bordentown to Brunswick and Amboy, in the Continental service.

To Colonel Joseph Borden £123 1s. 1d., for paying bounty and subsistence of twenty-five men in Captain Anderson’s Company.

To the Committee of the County of Bergen, the sum of £355 10s., in full of their Account, for seventy-nine stand of Arms delivered Captain Meeker, in Lord Stirling’s Battalion.

To Benjamin Thornell, Chairman of the Committee of Woodbridge, the sum of £25, to be employed in paying Expresses, Baggage-Wagons, &c.

To Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Deare, £2 18s. 6d., in full of his Account for conducting the Eastern Treasurer from Amboy to Trenton.

To Daniel Isaac Brown, for the County of Bergen, £1 18s. 9d., in full for Flints and Bullets, delivered Captain Meeker, in Lord Stirling’s Battalion, for the Continental service.

To Lieutenant Alexander Mitchell the sum of £36 15s., on account of two weeks’ Subsistence due Captain Whitall and his officers, and thirty-seven privates, in Colonel Newcomb’s Regiment, in General Heard’s Brigade.

To Colonel Charles Read the sum of £20, towards equipping the Militia under his command, to be accounted for by Colonel Read, or the Committee of Burlington County.

To Major Sidney Berry, £475 11s. 6d., in full for the Somerset and Hunterdon Militias’ apprehending certain disaffected persons in the County of Hunterdon.

To the Brigadier-Generals Dickenson and Livingston, the sum of £1,000 each, towards expediting the marching the Militia to the assistance of New-York, or to join the Flying-Camp, for which they are to be accountable to this Convention or the future Legislature.

To the Wives of William Burlless, Hugh MacClain, and John Wilson, soldiers in Captain Brearley’s Company, in Colonel Maxwell’s Battalion, the sum of 25s. per month, from the 6th of February last past, being so much stopped in the hands of Captain Brearley towards their support out of the monthly pay of the said Burtless, MacClain, and Wilson, as appears by Captain Brearley’s certificates.

To Doctor Moses Scott £4, in full for a Gun lost in the service of this State, which, when found, to be delivered to either of the Treasurers for the use of this State.

To William Hay the sum of £3 15s. for going express to Burlington, in full of his Account.

To Joseph Taylor 20s., in full of his Account for freight of Powder from Burlington to Trenton.

To the President, 46s. 8d., in full of his Account for postage of Letters.

To Frederick Frelinghuysen, Esq., 16s. 4d., to pay for bringing four Prisoners from Somerset to Princeton.

To John Taylor, 54s., in full of his Account for bringing a Deserter from Sandy-Hook to Burlington.

To Captain Thomas Kinney, £7 6s. 8d., in full of a mistake made in his Account of pay and expenses for guarding William Franklin to Governour Trumbull in Connecticut.

To Joseph Robinson, for attending as Doorkeeper twenty-five days, at 4s. per day, the sum of £5.

To Thomas Hutton, the sum of £6 15s., in full for the time he spent in searching for Lead and Sulphur Mines and Flint Quarries, by order of this Convention,

Which Certificates, with Receipts endorsed thereon, shall be sufficient vouchers to the said Treasurers, or either of them, and shall discharge them, their heirs, executors, and administrators, from the several payments so made and paid out of the Treasury by virtue of this Ordinance.

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

Monday, May 13, 1776.

A Letter of the 9th, from General Washington, was laid before Congress, and read:

Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee on Qualifications.

Sundry Petitions were presented to Congress, and read, viz: one from Dr. Benjamin Church, and one from Benjamin, Samuel, and Edward Church, with a Certificate from three Physicians, respecting the health of Dr. B. Church; also one from John Connolly and John Smith, accompanied with a Letter from Dr. Cadwallader:

Ordered, That they be referred to the Committee on Prisoners.

A Letter of the 3d from George Morgan, at Pittsburgh, was read:

Ordered, That it be referred to the Standing Committee on Indian Affairs.

Resolved, That Mrs. Connolly have leave to visit her husband in Jail.

Agreeable to order, the Committee of Secret Correspondence laid before Congress a copy of their Proceedings.

The Committee appointed to prepare a Preamble to the Resolution of Congress passed the 10th, brought in a draft; which was read.

Ordered, That the consideration thereof be postponed till to-morrow.

A Letter of the 4th, from Edmund Pendleton, President of the Committee of Safety of Virginia, was laid before Congress, and read.

The Committee of Claims reported that there is due—

To A. C. Hanson, for the expenses of two Gentlemen, a Private Soldier, and a Servant, on an expedition to New-York, the sum of 76.4 Dollars.

To Rachel Stille, for boarding Prisoners now in Trenton, and including Captain Chase’s bill of 8.5 Dollars and a bill of Wagonage., the sum of 290.9 Dollars.

To Robert Erwin, Wagonmaster, for wagonage of Powder from Egg-Harbour to Philadelphia, the sum of 247 Dollars.

To Frederick Bicking, for Paper for the Continental Bills of Credit, the sum of 1109.3 Dollars.

To Gunning Bedford, Deputy Mustermaster-General, for his pay and expenses to the 17th of April last, the sum of 455.6 Dollars.

Ordered, That the said Accounts be paid.

Congress resumed the consideration of the Resolution reported from the Committee of the Whole; and, after debate, the determination thereof, at the request of a Colony, was postponed till to-morrow.

The several matters to this day referred, being postponed,

Adjourned to ten o’clock, to-morrow.

Tuesday, May 14, 1776.

A Letter of the 11th, from General Washington, enclosing sundry papers; a Letter of the 3d, from General Schuyler, and a Letter of the 9th, from Daniel Robertson, were laid before Congress, and read:

Resolved, That they be referred to a Committee of three.

The Members chosen: Mr. W. Livingston, Mr. Jefferson, and Mr. J. Adams.

The Committee to whom the Petition of Dr. Benjamin Church, now confined in Jail in Norwich, in the Colony of Connecticut, and a Petition from Benjamin, Samuel, and Edward Church, together with a Certificate from Physicians respecting the dangerous state of the aforesaid Dr. Church, were referred, brought in their Report; which was read, and agreed to:

Whereupon, Resolved, That Dr. Benjamin Church be sent to the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, and that the Council of the said Colony be requested to take a recognisance from him, with two good sureties, in such penalty as they shall think sufficient, not being less than £1,000, lawful money, for his appearance before such Court as shall be erected for his trial, and at such time and place as such Court shall