[Watertown] Monday July 1st 1776.
Resolved, that there be a Company of Ship Carpenters, immediately agreed with, to enter into the Continental Service, & ordered to Albany, there to be under the direction of Genl Schuyler, or other commanding Officer. That they provide themselves with suitable tools, at their own Expence, & that necessary waggons be provided to transport their Tools, & Baggage to Albany, and that three pounds p Man be advanced in part of his Wages, to enable him to equip himself, & March to Albany, And that those Carpenters who have no tools, be provided therewith, deducting the cost thereof from the Wages of such deficient Carpenter ー That a Master workman be appointed to command this Company, whose Wages & allowance, together with those of the Company, be conformable to a memorandum of an agreement transmitted by Genl Schuyler the 25th Inst