5th [October]. Congress according to the order of the day went into a Committee of the whole, etc. After some debate a member produced a number of letters from England, which were read, and Captain Read, just arrived,2 and the gentleman to whom the letters were written, desired to attend the Congress. Expresses sent to General Washington, Governor Cooke and Governor Trumbull, to send our several vessels to intercept two transports with powder; etc. Encouragement given to the men, etc. The vessels to go on the service to be at the risk of the Continent.
1. "Diary of Governor Samuel Ward Delegate from Rhode Island in Continental Congress, 1774-1776," The Magazine of American History (New York and Chicago, 1877), I, Part II, 551.
2. Thomas Read was master of the ship Aurora, from London.
