Ordered, That Major [Joseph] Hawley, Doctor [John] Taylor, and Col. [Jonathan] Grout, be a Committee to prepare a vote of thanks to the Committee of this Congress this day returned from their embassy at Ticonderoga.

Ordered, That Mr. [Timothy] Langdon, Major [John] Bliss, and Mr. [Abel] Jewett, be a Committee to consider the Report of the Committee this day returned from Ticonderoga, and the Papers accompanying it, and also the Rolls made up by Captain [James] Noble and Captain [Samuel] Herrick.

Afternoon

The Committee appointed to consider the Report of the Committee sent to Ticonderoga, reported. The Report was recommitted, and the last mentioned Committee are directed to lay before the Committee first mentioned, a state of their account, debit and credit.

The Committee appointed to prepare a'vote of thanks to the Committee who have been on an embassy to Ticonderoga, reported. The Report was accepted, and is as follows, viz:

Whereas Walter Spooner, Jedediah Foster and James Sullivan, Esquires, a Committee of this Congress, lately ordered on a commission to the important posts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, for divers purposes expressed in their instructions, have this day returned, and made their report in writing; and it appearing upon full consideration thereof, that the said Committee have executed the various branches of their instructions with ability, fidelity and dispatch, and that their services have been attended with much fatigue and danger; therefore,

Resolved, That the services of the said Committee do merit the express approbation and thanks of Congress, and they do hereby testify and render the same to them, and each of them.