Captain Jeffrey, the captain of the packet, being requested to attend this Congress, and attending at the door, was called in, and, in substance informed the Congress, that on Tuesday last [June 13], about thirty leagues to the southeast of Sandy Hook, he saw the Spry man of war, now a transport, with part of the forty-Fourth Regiment on board. That he was informed by some of the officers of the troops on board the Spry, that the Mercury man of war, had ordered the Spry transport to Boston, and was cruising thereabouts to order all the transports with troops which were destined to New-York, to proceed to Boston That he had also had the like information from some of the officers of the Mercury . . .

Thereupon, a draught of a letter to Major General [David] Wooster was read and approved of ...²

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, signed by the President, and transmitted by Jacob Shafer as a messenger for that purpose.

A draught of a Letter to the Delegates from this Colony at the Continental Congress was also read and approved.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, and that a copy of the resolve and order of this Congress of the 15th inst. for introducing the Connecticut forces, under the command of General Wooster; a copy of the letter to General Wooster from this Congress of the same date; and the before written Letter to General Wooster of this day, be enclosed to the said delegates, and that the same be forwarded by the messenger from the Massachusetts Bay, now on his way to Philadelphia.