A Letter of the 27th instant by express from the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, on behalf of the Genera1 Assembly of that Colony was read.

The copy of the Letter [from Colonel Benedict Arnold, dated] Crown Point, May 23d, 1775, [enclosed in the Letter from Governor Trumbull was also read.]

The committee of correspondence (according to order,) brought in and reported a draught of a letter to the Governor and General Court of Connecticut, in answer to the letter from Governor Trumbull, above mentioned, which [was read and approved.]

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, signed by the President and transmitted with all convenient dispatch.

Ordered, That the Committee to report the ways and means for removing the cannon and stores from Ticonderoga, do without delay and as privately as possible, direct one hundred barrels of pork, two hundred barrels of flour, and twenty barrels of rum, to be sent forward to Albany towards supplying the garrisons at Crown Point and Ticonderoga.