[Philadelphia] Monday, November 20, 1775
Sundry letters from General Washington and Governor Trumbull, with sundry letters enclosed, among which sundry intercepted letters from Cork,2 were read.
Resolved, That the Secret Committee be empowered to contract for the importation of 100 tons of Lead.
Resolved, That intercepted letters be referred to the Committee of 7, appointed the 17th Instant, in order to select such parts of them as it may be proper to publish, and lay the same before Congress.
1. Ford, ed., JCC, III, 360, 361.
2. The letters were found on board the schooner Two Sisters which had been chased into Beverly by John Manley in the armed schooner Lee on November 8, 1775, and seized by fifteen of that town's inhabitants in a small boat. The capture was subsequently credited to Manley.