At a Special Meeting of the Committee on Thursday Morning 18 April 1776
Lieutenant [David] Plunket returned from Philadelphia, & brought a Letter from the President of the Continental Congress to this Committee, of which the following is a Copy-
[Here is inserted Hancock's letter of April 16, 1776, and the resolution of April 15 of the Continental Congress.]
Agreeable to the Intimation contained in the Resolution of Congress respecting Mr Alexander Ross & his Papers, Messrs Thomas Harrison, Benjamin Nicholson, & John Smith were ordered to enquire for, and secure said Ross's Papers, which they accordingly did, and report, that Mr Grant informed them, the said Papers were deposited in a Closet in his House, which he shewed to them, and which these Gentlemen then sealed up without seeing or examining said Papers-
A Copy of said Resolution was also sent to the Committee of Frederick County by the Post-
