Gentlemen  The Congress expect that you repair, with as much dispatch as the necessary preparation for your journey will admit, to Ticonderoga, in order to consult General Schuyler, what number of forces will be necessary in Canada and of the best and most efficacious method for procuring or continuing such forces in the Northern Department During the ensuing Winter, of engaging the inhabitants of the colony of Canada to accede to the association of the United Colonies and of protecting them for the future against their and our enemies

If upon such a conference it shall be judged necessary You are authorized to direct Mr. Livingston the Deputy Commissary General to furnish the necessary Provisions for an Army of three thousand Men for Six Months ー

You are also authorized to offer two Months pay as a bounty to such officers and soldiers as shall reenlist to be paid upon their taking the Fortress of St Johns and Montreal, and you are to make use of every argument to induce them to reenlist or at least to stay until they can be relieved, and to assure them that the Congress have taken care to supply them with proper cloathing

You are to direct the fortresses at Ticonderoga and Crown Point to be put into such a posture of Defence as the State of our affairs may require. ー You are to advise the General to Purchase of such officers and soldiers who have arms and are sick, their arms for the use of those who have none or bad ones and are well ー

Ammunition it is hoped since the late capture will not be wanting; if it should the Congress will send the first that shall arrive ー

If there should be occasion of re-enforcements you are impowered, in concert with General Schuyler to raise any number that can be procured in Canada, New York, or any of the New England governments in order to possess themselves of Montreal and Quebec

The Congress desire you to exert your utmost endeavours to induce the Canadians to accede to a union with these Colonies and that they form from their Several Parishes a Provincial Convention and send delegates to this Congress. And as in the Present unsettled state of that country a regular election can hardly be expected, the Congress will acquiesce in the choice of Such Parishes and districts as are induced to join us. ー

You may and you are hereby empowered to assure them that we shall hold their rights as dear as our own, and on their Union with Us, exert our utmost endeavours to obtain for them and their Posterity the blessings of a free government and that Security to their Persons and Property which is derived from the British Constitution ー

And you may and are hereby empowered farther to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience and shall Never Molest them in the free enjoyment of their religion ー

In case General Schuyler has not yet raised the regiment recommended to him to be raised in Canada, or in case he cannot proceed to Canada you are to use all the means in Your Power to perfect the raising a Regiment of Canadians to join the Continental forces; and you are for that purpose to take with you blank Commissions, which, taking the advice of the General Officers in that Department, you are to fill up with the names of Such Persons as have the most merit and the best qualifications for the Service

Congress direct you to acquaint General Schuyler that they approve of his appointment of Capt [David] Dimon to be a Brigade Major and have ordered him a Commission accordingly ー

The Congress moreover are desirous that you should take an accurate view of the state of our fortifications upon Hudsons river and make a report of it as soon as it can conveniently be done ー

If the circumstances of the Army should be such that a ton of Powder may be spared, you are to direct that quantity to be sent back to New York; and all such Cannon & Military stores as shall not be wanted in Canada or in the fortifications on the Lakes to be sent to Albany, there to remain until Congress give further direction concerning them. And for this purpose you are herewith furnished with a list of the ordinance & military stores which were at those places when taken ー²

You are to inform the General that the pay of some of the Officers is raised and to take with you from the Minutes the additional establishment ー

You are to Direct all such officers and soldiers as shall re-enlist to be paid all arrears that may be Due to them according to the rolls to be sent by Governor Trumbull, who in the mean time will be requested by Congress to send the rolls to the General ascertaining how long the men have been in the Service ー

The disposition of the Prisoners is approved of by the Congress; but the Officers are not to be permitted to reside in or near any Seaport

You are authorized to assure Major Brown and Major Livingston that Congress have a just sense of their important services and will take the first proper opportunity to reward them

You are also to acquaint the General that General Montgomery's request as to the pay of the company of Artillery by him appointed is complied with.

A Committee will be appointed to procure as much hard Money as will be necessary to be transmitted to the Deputy Pay-Master General in the Northern Department to be used in Canada. By order of the Congress

Congress Chamber Philadelphia Novr 9th, 1775

[Endorsed] Instructions To Robert R Livingston, Robert Treat Paine, and John Langdon Esquires, Committee of Congress to proceed & hold a Conference with General Schuyler on various Matters of Publik Concern ー November 9th, 1775