[Watertown] June 14, 1775
Resolved, That the Receiver-General be, and hereby is directed, to pay the sum of four hundred Pounds to the Committee who have been appointed by this Congress to repair to Ticonderoga; to be by said Committee appropriated as advance pay to the men enlisted under Col. Benedict Arnold, said Committee to be accountable therefor.
Resolved, That the Receiver-General be, and hereby is directed to advance the sum of twenty Pounds to the Committee who have been appointed by this Congress to go to Ticonderoga, in cash, or bills of credit, at the option of said Committee, for their expences, they to be accountable therefor.
Ordered, That Captain [Isaac] Stone, Colonel [James] Warren, Colonel [Jonathan] Grout, Mr. [Joseph] North, and Colonel [Joseph] Otis, be a Committee to consider the Report of Colonel [Samuel] Thompson, and the Petition of Mr. [Edward] Parry, and report.
Ordered, That the Committee who were chosen to repair to Ticonderoga, be directed to revise the papers that respect the Fortress there, and take such as they think they shall want, and that this Congress will not have occasion for.