Letter from General Thomas to the Commissioners in Canada, May 20: He is in command of a retreating Army; disheartened by unavoidable misfortunes, destitute of every comfort; sick, and (as they think) wholly neglected, and in no prospect of a speedy relief,

Letter from General Arnold to the Commissioners in Canada, May 17,

Letter from General Thompson to the Commissioners in Canada, May 25,

Letter from General Arnold to the Commissioners in Canada, May 25,

Letter from General Arnold to the Commissioners in Canada: Treatment of the American prisoners, by Captain Forster, of the King’s Troops,

Cartel for exchange of the prisoners, May 27,

Letter from Major Sherburne: Capture of the detachment under his command; the conduct of Major Butterfield was the cause of the disaster,

Account of the loss of the post at the Cedars, (Note,)

Additional account of the unfortunate affair at the Cedars, (Note,)

Letter from Governour Trumbull to the President of Congress: The navigation of the Sound and the security of the American fleet are important objects; for the safety of these he requests the heavy cannon may not be withdrawn from New-London,

Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Governour Trumbull, May 21: Requesting him to deliver to Mr. Hollingsworth the heavy cannon left at New-London,

Letter from the Committee of Hartford, in Connecticut, to the President of Congress: Governour Skene, refusing to give a parole, has been committed to prison; Captain McKay, who made his escape in violation of his parole, has been retaken, and is in prison also,

Parole tendered to Governour Skene, which he refused to subscribe,

Letter from General Ward to General Washington: Gallantry of Captain Cunningham and his crew of seven men in defence of the little schooner Lady Washington, when she was attacked by five boats of the British fleet, manned by a hundred men;

Instructions of the Town of Malden to Ezra Sargeant, their Representative in the Massachusetts Assembly,

Address of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland to the King: Approving the appointment of Commissioners to conciliate the alienated minds of his American subjects,

Memorial of Richard Hanson, of Petersburgh, to the Committee for Dinwiddie County, Virginia,

Apology of William Buchanan and others, who, with Mr. Hanson, violated an order of the Continental Congress, for the observation of the 17th of May as a solemn Fast-day,

Letter from Captain Nicholson to the Maryland Council of Safety: Has discovered vessels of war in the Bay,

Letter from William Whipple to John Langdon,

Letter from William Whipple to Meshech Weare: Our misfortunes in Canada are owing to the tardiness of the New-Hampshire Regiment ordered there last winter, and two other New-England Regiments; the causes of the delay should be fully investigated. North-Carolina and Virginia have instructed their Delegates to move for Independence; South-Carolina and Georgia will readily accede. The Proprietary Governments will be the last to accede to this necessary step; the New-Hampshire Delegates desire to know the opinion of their Colony on this subject,

Letter from General Washington to General Putnam: Cannot say with precision when he will be at liberty to return to New-York; requests General Putnam’s attention and vigilance to every necessary work; if the enemy appears approaching New-York, information to be sent immediately by express,

Letter from General Washington to General Ward: Disposition of the military stores in the prizes recently taken by the Continental cruisers,

Letter from the York (Pennsylvania) Committee to the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia: Their proceedings with Mr. Steadman and the papers he brought from Philadelphia,

Letter from the New-York Committee to the Provincial Congress,

Letter from Captain Jeremiah Wool to the New-York Congress,

Letter from Thomas Hicks to the New-York Congress: He is utterly incapable of performing the duty of a Deputy in the Congress,

Letter from Colonel Livingston to the New-York Congress, requesting an Armourer may be appointed for the Post in the Highlands,

Letter from Captain Steenrod to the New-York Congress,

Letter from General Schuyler to General Washington: Our affairs begin daily to wear a darker aspect in Canada, and will not change for the better, unless more troops are sent in. Colonel Dayton’s Regiment cannot be removed from Tryon County; Ticonderoga should be put in a proper state of defence immediately. He requests a Court of Inquiry, with the least possible delay, on the infamous libel transmitted from the Committee of King’s District,

Letter from General Schuyler to the Commissioners in Canada: He has been charged with sending provisions to Canada that it may fall in the enemy’s hands; Doctor Franklin and Mr. Carroll left Albany, on the 22d instant, for New-York,

Letter from Colonel Babcock to the President of Congress: Proposing to raise two Battalions of Marines; he would expect the rank of Brigadier-General,

Letter from Colonel Bayley to General Washington: A road from Newbury to St. John’s will be completed in about twenty days,

Letter from the Committee for Newburyport to Tristram Dalton,

Petition of Inhabitants of Wellfleet to the Massachusetts Council,

Letter from General Armstrong to General Robert Howe: A sloop from St. Eustatia has arrived at Charlestown, South-Carolina, with ten thousand pounds of powder,

Letter from Captain Nicholson to the Maryland Council of Safety: The enemy’s ships have gone in towards the mouth of the Rappahannock,

Letter from Colonel Beall to the Maryland Council of Safety,

Statement of General McDonald to the President and Members of the Continental Congress, of the manner in which he was made prisoner, and of his treatment since,

Associators of the Fourth Battalion, in North-hampton County, Pennsylvania, declare in favour of a Provincial Convention,

Address of the General Committee of Mechanicks in Union, of New-York, to the Provincial Congress, requesting them to instruct their Delegates in the Continental Congress to move for Independence,

Answer to the Address by the Provincial Congress, June 4,

Petition of Thomas Loosley and Thomas Elms, Papermakers, to the New-York Provincial Congress, to be exempted from military service,

Letter from Lieutenant Holiday to General Greene, with three prisoners,

Examination of the prisoners,