A letter of the 14th April from John ー G.Frazer, With lists of the vessels, cannon, and ordnance stores left by the enemy at Boston ... read:

A petition from John Bayard, P. Moore, and John Patton, was presented to Congress and read: Whereupon,

Resolved, That the Secret Committee be directed to sell to the petitioners 600 lb. of powder, for the use of the privateer they are fitting out.

The Congress took into consideration the memorial from the committee of safety of Pensylvania; Whereupon,

Resolved, That twenty of the heaviest cannon; taken by Commodore Hopkins, at New Providence, and brought from thence to New London, and since carried to Newport, be brought to the city of Philadelphia, and delivered to the committee of safety of Pensylvania, for the defence and protection of said city; to remain there during the pleasure of Congress.

Resolved, That such of the iron cannon, as were brought from Ticonderoga to Boston, and have not been removed by General Washington, be lent for the defence of the town and harbour of Boston, to remain there during the pleasure of Congress.