Philada Sepr 3d 1776.
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Sir, I do myself the Honour to enclose you sundry Resolves, by which you will perceive that Congress, having taken your Letter of the 2d Inst into Consideration, came to a Resolution, in a Committee of the whole House, that no Damage should be done to the City of New York.2
1. Papers CC (Letter Books of the President of Congress), 12a, I, NA.
2. Journal of Congress, September 3, 1776 reads: "Resolved, That General Washington be acquainted, that the Congress would have especial care taken, in case he should find it necessary to quit New York, that no damage be done to the said city by his troops, on their leaving it: The Congress having no doubt of being able to recover the same, though the enemy should, for a time, obtain possession of it," Ford, ed., JCC, V, 730, 733,
