New-York Convention. You will see, by the newspapers enclosed, what is going forward in Virginia and Maryland and New-Jersey. Farewell, farewell, infatuated, besotted, Step-dame!

GENERAL ROBERDEAU TO RICHARD PETERS.

Philadelphia, July 15, 1776.

DEAR SIR: I enclose you the order of last evening, and my Major will parade the guards at the State-House yard; which is attended with so much trouble and reluctance in the Associators, who are more desirous of a campaign, that I intend to address the Convention on the subject, and to get distinct corps created for city guards, that the four companies may join their corps. If Captain Peters should be one of the officers it would make me happy.

I am, dear sir, your very obedient servant,

DANIEL ROBERDEAU.

To Captain Richard Peters, Secretary at War.

PENNSYLVANIA COMMITTEE OF SAFETY.

In Committee of Safety, July 15, 1776.

Whereas the Assembly of this Province did, in a former session, resolve that" If any Associator, called into actual service, shall leave a family, not of ability to maintain themselves in his absence, the Overseers of the Poor, with the concurrence of one Justice of the Peace of the City or County where such Associator did reside, shall immediately make provision, by way of out pension, for the maintenance of such family; and a true and proper account being kept thereof, shall be returned to the Assembly, in order that the same may be made a Provincial expense, and paid accordingly:" And as it is the opinion of this Committee, that the funds of the said Overseers will prove greatly insufficient whenever any considerable number of Associators shall be drawn into actual service, and that the administering to the wants of such families, by the hands of the Overseers, will not be satisfactory to the Associators, or be likely to answer the good ends proposed:

Therefore, Resolved, That this Committee will, out of the funds of which they have the disposition, make such provision as shall be thought necessary to answer the said purposes; and that it be recommended to the Committee of Inspection and Observation of the City of Philadelphia, and the several Counties in the Province, to nominate and appoint a proper number of judicious persons, residing in the said City and Counties respectively, to distribute to such distressed families the allowance they shall judge reasonable; and that the said Committee be empowered to draw, as they shall see occasion, on this Board for the necessary sums of money, to be by them lodged in the hands of the persons so nominated and appointed, to be applied as above directed. The said Committees to return accounts to this Board of the expenditure of the same.

Extract from the Minutes:

WILLIAM GOVETT, Secretary.

PHILADELPHIA COMMITTEE.

Philadelphia County Committee, July 15, 1776.

Resolved, That this Committee, in consequence of a Letter from the honourable Continental Congress, as well as from a recommendation of the Provincial Conference, do proceed to raise our part of the Flying-Camp; and that the following gentlemen be appointed Officers: Colonel, Robert Lewis; Lieutenant-Colonel, Isaac Hughes; Major, John Moore, Esq.; Surgeon, Enoch Edwards; Quartermaster, Marshall Edwards; Adjutant, Solomon Bush. Captains: Archibald Thompson, George Smith, Henry Deringer, Jacob Lauchlin, Rudolph Neff, Aaron Levering, Christian Schnyder, Henry Pawling, Joseph Jones. First Lieutenants: Marshall Edwards, Solomon, Bush, Samuel Swift, William Wilson, Casper Doll, Samuel Hainds, Graudus Schlatter, Mordecai Morgan, David Schrack, Stephen Porter, Thomas Rossetter, Second Lieutenants: William Armstrong, Leonard Doll, James Hazlet, George Bringhurst, Matthew Holgate, Jesse Roberts, Alexander Hall, Peacock Major. Ensigns: Andrew Barge, William North, William Noa, Abraham Duffield, Nathaniel Childs, Alexander Wright, James Potts, Rees Nanna.

Extract from the Minute:

ENOCH EDWARDS.

Philadelphia, July 16, 1776.

Yesterday Lieutenant-Colonel Allen arrived in town from Crown-Point.

The Rev. Jacob Duche is appointed Chaplain to the honourable Continental Congress.

This afternoon the First Battalion of Maryland Regulars, commanded by Colonel Smallwood, arrived in this city, on their way to the Jerseys, where they are to compose a part of the Flying-Camp.

CARPENTER WHARTON TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

[Read July 17, 1776.]

Trenton, July 15, 1776.

SIR: I have the pleasure of acquainting you that two thousand of the Pennsylvania Militia have arrived here, and that Colonel Dickinson's battalion have just marched for Woodbridge, agreeable to orders from General Mercer; and the whole body of the Pennsylvania Militia, as by his instructions, are immediately to proceed to Woodbridge. I have supplied them with one day's provision at this place, and at their arrival at Princeton they will receive two days' allowance, to last them until they arrive at Woodbridge.

Agreeable to your orders, I wrote to the Commissary-General respecting my supplying the Flying-Camp, for which he had appointed two persons; therefore shall not continue supplying them farther than Princeton. Colonel Cadwalader has written to Mr. Trumbull, desiring of him to admit of my supplying the Pennsylvania Militia, which, if it is agreeable to him, I will cheerfully continue. I have just received one hundred and fifty head of oxen, and five hundred head of sheep, and fifteen hundred barrels of flour, which will last but a short time in supplying the troops in only passing through.

The money I have received from Congress, I have expended in service, which the returns will specify. I am now in want of fifteen thousand dollars, which I flatter myself you will please to order, as it will require that sum to provide for the Maryland and Pennsylvania troops as they pass through to Head-Quarters. The bearer, Lieutenant Joseph Bullock, will receive and deliver me the money.

Should the honourable Congress not have appointed a Commissary of Stores for the Flying-Camp, I shall be happy in entering in that service, if I should not be continued for the supplying of the Militia, which I do not expect.

I have the honour to be your obedient humble servant,

CARPENTER WHARTON.

To the Hon. John Hancock, Esq., President of the Continental Congress.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

New-York, July 15, 1776.

SIR: This will be banded to you by Mr. Griffin, who has also taken upon him the charge and delivery of packets containing sundry letters, which were sent to Amboy yesterday by a flag, and forwarded to me to-day by General Mercer. The letter addressed to Governour Franklin came open to my hands.

I was this morning honoured with yours of the 13th inst., with its important and necessary enclosures; and, in obedience to the commands of Congress, have transmitted General Howe the resolves intended for him; those for General Burgoyne, I enclosed and sent to General Schuyler, with directions immediately to forward them to him. The inhuman treatment to the whole, and murder of part of our people, after their surrender and capitulation, was certainly a flagrant violation of that faith which ought to be held sacred by all civilized nations, and was founded in the most savage barbarity. It highly deserved the severest reprobation; and I trust the spirited measures Congress have adopted upon the occasion will prevent the like in future; but if they should not, and the claims of humanity are disregarded, justice and policy will require recourse to be had to the laws of retaliation, however abhorrent and disagreeable to our natures in cases of torture and capital punishments.

I have the honour to be, with great respect, sir, your most obedient servant,

GO. WASHINGTON.