Instructions to Captain Reed, for the better government of the Navy now under his command,

Report of Committee on a proper mode of providing cartridges for the Associators,

Lieutenant Hume, of the armed boat Ranger, to send two men down the Bay on publick service,

Regulations of the Congress, of April 3, respecting Privateers,

Letter from General Lee to the President of the Virginia Convention,

Letter from Captain Nicholson to the Maryland Council of Safety: Is proceeding with the ship up to Baltimore. Has seen nothing of the enemy’s ships since he left them off Windmill Point,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Hugh Young,

Philadelphia Committee of Inspection: Regulate the price of Salt and Tea,

Philadelphia Committee of Inspection and Observation: Declare and hold up to the world Stephen Shewell and Joseph Shewell as enemies to their country,

Letter from the Committee for Reading, Pennsylvania, to the Committee of Philadelphia: They have appointed a Delegation to attend the Conference on the 18th of this month,

Letter from General Putnam to General Washington: Since he wrote yesterday, five ships have arrived at the Hook,

Letter from General Putnam to General Schuyler: Has sent forward a number of cannon and other supplies; powder, lead, and provisions, will soon be sent for him,

Letter from John Bull to Henry Remsen: Declines the appointment offered him by the Provincial Congress. He is by no means a friend to independency, and will not, in any capacity, arm in defence of it,

Letter from Captain Thomas Harriott to the New-York Congress: He will never take an active part against the United Colonies, if they will grant him his liberty,

Letter from Thomas Vernon to the New-York Congress, requesting to be released from prison: It never was his intention to be an enemy to this country,

Letter from Henry Killegrove to the New-York Congress: The British knew him to be a pilot of the port, and kept him on board the Phenix, much against his inclination,

Letter from Lord Stirling to General Washington: Condition of the Fortifications in the Highlands; West-Point and other places mentioned as proper positions for further defences,

Return of the present state of the Garrison at Fort Constitution, May 29, 1776,

State of the Garrison at Fort Montgomery,

Return of Provisions in store at Fort Constitution,

Return of Provisions at Fort Montgomery, May 31,

Return of Persons employed at Fort Montgomery,

Return of Persons employed at Fort Constitution,

Number of Persons proposed to be employed at both Posts,

Returns of Persons employed in carrying on both the Works,

List of Tory Prisoners at Fort Montgomery,

Report of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores at Fort Montgomery, May 31,

Report of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores at Fort Constitution, May 30,

Account of Artillery Stores at both the Forts,

Letter from General Schuyler to the President of Congress: His Letters to Congress show that he has long seen the necessity of discipline in the Army, and dreaded the consequences that would arise from the want of it. Our affairs in Canada are not irretrievable,

Letter from General Sullivan to the President of Congress: Arrived at St. John’s last evening. General Thomas is down with the small-pox, and is without the least prospect of a recovery. General Wooster is at St. John’s, with his baggage, returning to Connecticut. Everything is in the utmost confusion, and almost every one frightened at they know not what. The Regiments sent here are torn and divided into numerous parts, and scattered from one end of the country to another,

Letter from Major John G. Frazer to the President of Congress, enclosing an inventory of every article found in the docks and harbour of Boston since the enemy evacuated that place,

Letter from Joshua Wentworth to Stephen Moylan: For directions about disposing of the Brig Elizabeth and cargo, captured by Commodore Manly,

Letter from Charles Carroll, Barrister, to the Maryland Council of Safety,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Baltimore County Committee, with information of the movement of Lord Dunmore’s Fleet,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Virginia Committee of Safety: If Lord Dunmore expects to find more favour in Maryland than he has experienced in Virginia, he will be greatly disappointed,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Nicholson: Directing him to make the best preparation he can to repel any attack that may be made by our enemies on either the Fortifications or Town of Baltimore,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to their Delegates in Congress: All is quiet at Annapolis. The Governour has just received a letter from Captain Hammond, of the Roebuck, who will shortly send for him. Lord Dunmore has taken possession of Gwinn’s Island. Our Islands will probably be plundered next,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to the Baltimore Committee: Lord Dunmore, with the whole fleet, has left Norfolk, and arrived at Gwinn’s Island, where they have landed their men, and are intrenching themselves. They found a large supply of fresh provisions on the Island,

Letter from William Whipple to John Langdon,

Letter from General Putnam to the President of Congress,

Form of a Parole prepared for Lieutenant Neal McLean, which he refused to sign,

Letter from General Putnam to General Washington: Lieutenant McLean has behaved very ill, and is sent in irons to Philadelphia,

Letter from Ezra L’Hommedieu to the New-York Congress,

Letter from General Thompson to General Washington: Entertains doubts of our ability to keep Canada; the artillery is lost, and the New-England Troops are so much infected with, or afraid of, the small-pox, as almost to prevent their doing duty; if he had the Jersey and Pennsylvania Regiments, less than five thousand men could compel him to evacuate it,

Letter from Arthur Lee to the Committee of Secret Correspondence,

Letter from Colonel Moultrie to President Rutledge: Two large vessels are in sight; the Fort on Sullivan’s Island is enclosed: He has not men enough, but will make the best defence he can with what he has got,

Address to the Inhabitants of Virginia: On the conduct of the Inhabitants of Norfolk,

Letter from James Ringgold to the Maryland Council of Safety, enclosing his commission and resignation,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to General Chamberlaine and other officers: Requesting the Militia may not be alarmed on the approach of the enemy’s vessels, which are daily expected up the Bay,