Report on the Memorials respecting disaffected persons in Monmouth, Hunterdon, Bergen, and Sussex Counties,

Letter from President Hancock, with a Resolution of the Continental Congress, recommending an examination of Mr. Franklin,

Petition of Inhabitants of Morristown, praying that all officers in Civil Government may be annually elected by the People,

General Livingston requested to take command of the Militia destined for New-York,

Commander-in-Chief of the Continental forces at New-York, upon the arrival of British Troops, authorized to call out the Militia of New-Jersey,

Governour Franklin denying the authority of the Provincial Congress, is ordered to be con fined in such place and manner as the Continental Congress shall direct,

Four Petitions from Middletown and Shrews bury, in Monmouth County, against a change of Government,

Two Petitions from Freehold, in Monmouth County, for a change of Government,

Resolution, that a Government be formed for regulating the internal police of the Colony,

Five Delegates elected to represent the Colony in Continental Congress,

Instructions to the Delegates,

Two Petitions from Middletown and Freehold, in Monmouth County, for a change of Government,

Letter and representation from the Committee for Monmouth County, respecting disaffected persons,

Committee to prepare the draft of a Constitution,

Governour Franklin ordered to Connecticut, under guard,

Colonel Heard appointed Brigadier-General of the forces destined for New-York,

Colonel Charles Read with two companies of the Militia of Burlington County, ordered to Monmouth County, to apprehend Insurgents and other disaffected persons,

Instructions to Colonel Read,

Colonel Ten Eyck ordered with a detachment to Hunterdon County, to apprehend Insurgents and disaffected persons,

Instructions to Colonel Ten Eyck,

The Congress in Committee of the Whole on the Constitution,

Two Petitions from Inhabitants of Upper Free hold, in Monmouth County, praying for the establishment of such Government as shall be equal to the exigencies of the Colony,

Petitions for and against the establishment of a Government, referred to the Committee of the Whole,

Two Memorials from Monmouth County, respecting the disaffected in that County, and requesting the Congress would take some decisive order therein,

Troops ordered to New-York, certain advice being received of the arrival of General Howe at Sandy-Hook,

Charles Pettit, commanded immediately to re move the publick Papers and Records, in his custody, from Perth-Amboy to Burlington,

All persons who refuse to bear arms to be disarmed,

Certain disaffected persons to be confined in the common Jail of Trenton,

Constitution reported from the Committee of the Whole, and confirmed by the Congress,

Captain Kinney cited to answer for his delaying the removal of Mr. Franklin to Connecticut,

Colonel Read ordered to proceed with four hundred men to quell the insurrection in Monmouth County,

Motion to reconsider in a full House, the propriety of the last clause in the Constitution, containing the proviso respecting reconciliation, rejected,

Secret Committee appointed to correspond and co-operate with the Secret Committee of the Provincial Congress of New-York,

Pardon offered to such of the Monmouth Insurgents, as shall, without delay, return peaceably to their homes, and conform to the orders of the Congress,

Met by adjournment at Trenton,

Letter from John Dennis, charging the Officers and other prisoners of war with plotting with the Negroes, &c.,

Complaint of the Committee of Piscataway, that certain disaffected persons had been carried out of the Township before trial,

Disaffected persons now in Jail; to be tried on Wednesday next, the 10th instant,

So many Members being absent, such as shall attend are authorized to transact any business which may arise and require immediate consideration,

Petition from Inhabitants of Alexandria, in Hunterdon County, that no Member of Congress may hold a post of profit,

Stephen Skinner and others, apprehended and removed to Trenton by order of General Washington,

Petition of Dr. John Hicks, who claims to be a British officer on half pay,

General Livingston directed to apprehend John Smyth,

Witnesses examined on charges against disaffected persons,

Letter from Adjutant-General Reed,

Test to be taken before any person can be en titled to a seat in the Legislative Council or Assembly,

Disaffected persons from Amboy permitted to return and to remove their effects to such place as Congress may appoint,

Ordinance for regulating the ensuing election under the Constitution,

Township Committees throughout the Colony requested to exert themselves in procuring Lead for the use of the Army now engaged in our defence,

Letter to the Ladies of Amboy: Their petition in favour of Dr. Lawrence cannot be granted, 1647 Resolution of the Congress to support the freedom and independence of the United States, with their lives and fortunes, and with the whole force of New-Jersey,

The House adopts the style and title of “The Convention of the State of New-Jersey,”

Ordinance for punishing Treason and Counterfeiting,

Ordinance for detaching two thousand of the Militia for the defence of New-York,

Proceedings against persons inimical to the liberties of the country,

Order for the arrest of Joseph Stansbury, a suspected person, from Philadelphia,

Committee of Monmouth County directed to remove all the stock on their coast, which may be in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy,

Letter from General Washington, informing that the Brigade under General Heard is very far from complete,

Committee to consider the propriety of building or purchasing four Row-Galleys, mounted with cannon, to ply between the mouths of the Passaick and Hackensack Rivers and Perth-Amboy,

John Hartwick, John Brown, and Jacob Neifies, of New-Brunswick, restored to the good opinion of their countrymen,

Captain Cook directed to apprehend any per son whom he has reason to suspect of inlisting, or being inlisted, for the British Army,

General Mercer requested to take immediate steps for removing all such disaffected or suspicious persons in Perth-Amboy as may, from their situation, be thought dangerous to the publick cause,

Joseph Stockton committed to the common Jail of Somerset County,

Thomas Hutton employed to search for Lead and Sulphur Mines, and Flint Quarries,

Letter to Colonel Wetherill, requiring his reasons for not making the detachment ordered from his Regiment,