Governour authorized to fill all vacancies, and to appoint Chaplains, Surgeons, Surgeons’ Mates, and Armourers, for the several Regiments,

876

Committee to procure Fire-Arms and Gun-Locks to be made in the Colony,

877

Committee to procure Pork for the Army,

878

Committee to procure Lead for the publick use,

878

Committee for procuring Sulphur,

878

Committee to search after Lead Mines,

879

Act for issuing Bills of Credit of the Colony to the amount of Fifty Thousand Pounds,

879

Tax levied for discharging any of the Bills emitted by order of the Assembly,

879

Allowance for the support of Gershom Clark, of Lebanon, in General Putnam’s Regiment, wounded on the 17th of June, 1775, at the battle on Bunker-Hill,

881

Assembly adjourned by Proclamation,

882

June 14,

Committee for King and Queen County, Virginia, order Philip Rootes, William Graham, Benjamin Robinson, Thomas Corbin, and Thomas Metcalfe, to be published, as per sons inimical to the rights and liberties of America,

881

14,

Letter from E. Johnson to the Maryland Council of Safety,

882

14,

Letter from Benton Harris to Major Gist,

882

14,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Jesse Hollingsworth,

883

14,

Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to their Delegates in Congress: While the Convention is regulating the Militia, if necessary, in the meantime the several Committees of Observation may be directed fairly to collect the sense of the Province on the subject of Independence, and make report thereof to the Convention,

883

14,

Assembly of Delaware direct that all Civil and Military officers in the Colony execute their offices in the name of the Government of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware, as they used legally to exercise it in the name of the King, until a new Government shall be formed,

884

14,

Letter from the President of Congress to General Washington, enclosing sundry important Resolves. The establishing a War Office is a new and great event in the history of America, and will doubtless be attended with peculiar advantages, when properly conducted and inspected; the Congress have only laid the foundation at present,

884

14,

Letter from the President of Congress to Commodore Hopkins: Congress requires him to repair to Philadelphia immediately, to give explanations of his conduct, and to answer complaints made against him,

885

14,

Letters from the President of Congress to Captain Saltonstall and Captain Whipple, directing them immediately to repair to Philadelphia, by land; their conduct from the time they entered the service is to be investigated,

886

14,

Letter from the President of Congress to Richard Peters: Informing him of his appointment as Secretary to the Board of War and Ordnance,

886

14,

Letter from the President of Congress to the Massachusetts Assembly,

886

14,

Letter from the President of Congress to the New-Hampshire Convention,

948

14,

Letter from the President of Congress to William Palfrey,

887

14,

Letter from Richard Peters, Jun., to the President of Congress,

888

14,

Letter from the New-Hampshire Delegates in Congress to Meshech Weare,

888

14,

Letter from William Whipple to John Langdon: The Commissioners sent to Canada have returned; in the event of General Thomas’s death the command devolves on Sullivan; but another General officer will be sent there, probably Sullivan will be the man,

1028

June 14,

Meeting of the Committee for Chester County, Pennsylvania: Deputies to the Provincial Conference appointed, and Committees appointed to collect arms from the Non-Associators,

888

14,

Committee for Essex County, New-Jersey, direct that all persons who have removed into that County, and do not exhibit evidence, that where they had previously resided, they had been friendly to American liberty, they shall leave the County,

890

14,

Letter from General Washington to the President of Congress,

890

General Orders, from June 9 to June 14,

890

General Return of the Army, June 12,

893

Return of the Regiment of Artillery, June 12,

893

14,

Orders to Colonel James Clinton, to take command of the Posts in the Highlands,

893

14,

Letter from General Washington to General Schuyler,

894

14,

Letter from the New-York Congress to the Committee for Ulster County,

1405

14,

Letter from General Greene to the New-York Congress,

1403

14,

Letter from Theodorus Van Wyck to Henry Remsen: He will to-morrow advertise the houses and lands of persons who have not paid their interest on money borrowed from the Loan Office,

1402

14,

Petition of Dr. Azor Betts to the New-York Congress, praying to be released. In future he will not violate the orders of the House,

1404

14,

Letter from John William Livingston to the New-York Congress,

1404

14,

Letter from Ryner Van Hoese to the New-York Congress,

1404

14,

Address of the Mechanicks in Union, for the City and County of New-York, to the Provincial Congress, on the establishment of a new Government, as recommended by the Continental Congress,

896

14,

Letter from the Committee for Ulster County, to the New-York Congress,

898

Reasons given by Colonel Hardenbergh, late Chairman of the Convention for Ulster County, for returning two sets of Credentials to the Provincial Congress,

898

Information given by Mr. Schoonmaker and Mr. Robinson, with respect to the two sets of Credentials that were delivered to the Deputies of Ulster County,

899

14,

Letter from the Committee for Ulster County to the New-York Congress: The people are in a distressed situation for want of powder,

900

14,

Letter from Colonel Livingston to Lord Stirling,

901

14,

Letter from Colonel Henry B. Livingston to the New-York Congress,

1413

14,

Meeting of the Albany General Committee: Henry Wendell recommended for Sheriff, and Matthew Visscher for Clerk, of Albany, in case a new form of Government shall take place in the Colony,

901

14,

Letter from John Lansing, Jr., to General Schuyler,

942

14,

Letter from Governour Trumbull to the Virginia Convention, enclosing Resolutions on the subject of Independence, which are transmitted by direction of the Assembly. They have altered the oaths and commissions wherein heretofore was expressed any duty or connection with the King of Great Britain,

902

14,

Meeting of the Committee for Harwinton, Connecticut,

902

14,

Letter from Commodore Hopkins to Lieutenant Hacker,

902

14,

Captain Biddle, with the brig Andrew Doria, arrived at Newport from a cruise,

902

15,

Letter from General Lee to Colonel Moultrie: General Armstrong has been stationed at Haddrell’s Point; all reports are to be made to him, as commanding officer,

1188

15,

Letter from Colonel Horry to John L. Gervis,

903

15,

Letter from General Mercer to the President of Congress,

903

15,

Memorial of Richard Henderson and others, proprietors of Transylvania, to the Virginia Convention,

1573