Col. Prescott brought down from the honorable Board a Letter from the Committee of the Continental Congress, for collecting an Account of the Hostilities committed by the Ministerial Troops and Navy in America, since March last, the Number and Value of the Buildings destroyed and Vessels seized.

In Council, November 7, 1775.

Read and Ordered, That Joseph Palmer, Esq; with such as the honorable House shall join, be a Committee to collect a true Account of all the Hostilities committed by the Ministerial Troops and Navy within this Colony, and the Evidences of the Truth of such Account, agreeable to the above Resolve of General Congress; and that the Committee set in the Recess of the Court for the above Purpose.