1776. |
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June 14, |
Philip Livingston directed to delay his return to the Continental Congress, until further order, |
1403 |
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Publick Records of the Colony to be forthwith removed to Kingston, in Ulster County, |
1403 |
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Committee to take charge of the Records and provide for their safety and security, |
1403 |
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Petition of Dr. Azor Betts, to be discharged from prison, |
1404 |
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John W. Livingston declares his willingness to comply with the Resolve of Congress, and begs to be discharged from prison, |
1404 |
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Examination of Abraham Livingston, |
1404 |
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Letter to the Committee of New-Windsor, |
1405 |
15, |
Military Officers declared ineligible to a seat in the Provincial Congress, |
1406 |
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Micha Lynch and Thomas Hickey committed to prison, |
1406 |
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Letter to General Washington, enclosing Affidavits relating to Lynch and Hickey, |
1406 |
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Letter to General Greene: They cannot permit cannon to be purchased in the Colony, |
1407 |
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List of Firemen in the City of New-York, |
1408 |
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Letter to General Washington, on procuring a supply of live stock for the use of the Army, |
1409 |
17, |
Complaint by Mr. Jay of the handbill published by General Scott, |
1410 |
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Isaac Ketcham requests to be heard before the Congress, |
1410 |
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Officer commanding the Guard directed to bring him before the Congress with all convenient speed, |
1410 |
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His examination, |
1411 |
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Committee to consider the publication of General Scott, |
1411 |
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Secret Committee appointed to confer with General Washington, |
1412 |
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Motion by Colonel Remsen, that the quota of Militia to be raised by New-York be lessened, |
1412 |
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Letter from President Hancock, enclosing Resolutions of the Continental Congress of the 14th instant, |
1412 |
18, |
Committee to prepare a Resolution for removing all doubt as to the true construction of the Association, |
1414 |
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Committee to inquire whether bounties are necessary for encouraging the manufacturing of Salt, Saltpetre, Gunpowder, Gun-Locks, and Gun-Barrels, |
1414 |
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Committee to provide places of safety for the poor inhabitants of the City in case of invasion, |
1414 |
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Publick dinner to General Washington and his suite, |
1415 |
19, |
Representation by Mr. Benson, of the Proceedings of the Committee of Dutchess County, with respect to disaffected persons, |
1415 |
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Memorial of Marinus Willett and others, requesting some encouragement in the manufacturing of Salt, |
1416 |
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Petition of Azor Betts, imprisoned for inoculating for the small-pox, praying to be discharged, |
1417 |
20, |
Report on the dangerous and disaffected persons in the Counties of Dutchess and West-chester, |
1418 |
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Secret Committee appointed on the 17th instant, authorized to arrest and secure certain persons, |
1419 |
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Resolutions for removing doubts which have arisen respecting the true construction of the Association, |
1420 |
21, |
Letter from Robert H. Harrison respecting a suspected dangerous man, named Samuel Witten, |
1421 |
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Committee on the Letter of the 18th instant, from President Hancock, |
1422 |
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Committee of Kings County directed to take effectual measures to prevent the disaffected in the County from communicating with the enemy, |
1423 |
22, |
One hundred and fifty men to be raised in Dutchess and Westchester Counties, to protect the inhabitants against dangerous and disaffected persons, |
1424 |
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Offer of the Militia of the Colony to the Commander-in-Chief, whenever he may think it necessary, |
1426 |
1776. |
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June 22, |
Commander-in-Chief authorized to impress carriages and water-craft, when necessary for publick service, |
1426 |
24, |
General Washington requested to disarm and secure the persons disaffected and inimical to the American cause, on Long-Island, |
1427 |
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Resolutions to provide clothing for the Troops raised and to be raised, |
1428 |
25, |
Application of Colonel Ritzema for pay for his Regiment, his men being mutinous and uneasy for want of it, |
1429 |
26, |
Committee on the Resolutions of the Continental Congress of the 24th instant, for punishing Traitors, |
1431 |
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Philip Livingston permitted to return to the Continental Congress on the 30th instant, |
1431 |
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Committee of Albany requested to make a report of their proceedings against Abraham Cuyler, and others, sent prisoners to Hartford, in Connecticut, |
1432 |
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Committee of Dutchess County requested to send under guard to the Congress the Captains in that County who have refused to permit drafts, |
1432 |
27, |
Augustus Van Horn, Vincent Pierce Ashfield, and Thomas W. Moore, signed the Assotion and were discharged, |
1433 |
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John L. C. Roome, declaring it was against his conscience to sign, was recommitted, |
1434 |
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John Alner, arrested on suspicion of having been on board the enemys ship at Sandy-Hook, examined and committed to the guard, |
1434 |
28, |
Examinations and Depositions of sundry persons taken by the Secret Committee, laid before the Congress by Mr. Jay, |
1435 |
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Letter from General Washington, enclosing the Resolution of the Council of General Officers on the removal of the cattle from Nassau and Staten-Islands, |
1436 |
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Committee to confer with General Washington on the subject, |
1436 |
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Letters read, giving information of General Howes sailing with the fleet from Halifax for New-York, |
1436 |
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Letter to the Committees of Huntington and Southold relative to deserters from the Provincial armed sloop Montgomery, |
1437 |
29, |
Letter from President Hancock, enclosing Resolutions of the Continental Congress of the 26th instant, |
1438 |
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Report of Committee on removal of Cattle from Long-Island and Staten-Island, |
1439 |
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Letter to the Committee of Elizabethtown, |
1440 |
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Lead of the windows and leaden weights in the City to be collected for the use of the Colony, |
1440 |
30, |
Powder belonging to this Colony in Rhode-Island to be sent for and distributed among the several Counties, |
1441 |
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Letter to Governour Cooke, requesting the powder may be delivered to Colonel Joseph Marsh, |
1441 |
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Papers of the Secret Committee, delivered, sealed up, to the Secretary of the Congress by Mr. Morris, |
1442 |
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Disaffected persons taken at Hempstead, in Queens County, delivered to the Committee on the Continental Prisoners, |
1442 |
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Colonel Hay directed to apprehend the most refractory of the disaffected of the Militia, in Haverstraw Precinct, in Orange County, |
1442 |
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Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army authorized, whenever he shall judge it necessary for the defence of the Colony, to call out what proportion of the Militia he may think proper, |
1442 |
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Committees of the several Towns requested to arrest all dangerous and disaffected persons, |
1443 |
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Treasurer and Secretaries of the Congress directed, forthwith, to repair, with all the publick papers and money in their custody or possession, to White Plains, in the County of Westchester, |
1443 |
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The Congress adjourned to meet at the CourtHouse, in White Plains, on Tuesday, the 2d day of July next, |
1443 |