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A copy of a recommendation and directions from the Continental Congress, signed by their Secretary, bearing date of the 18th instant, and certified by Henry Remsen, deputy chairman of the committee of New York, to be a true copy, relating to the artillery and stores now in Ticonderoga, was handed to the President, and read, and is in the words following, to wit:
[Here is inserted the resolve of...
Date: 23 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. David Clarkson, chairman of the committee appointed yesterday to report the methods best adapted to comply with the directions of the Continental Congress, respecting the cannon and stores at Ticonderoga, and the other matters recommended in their order of the 18th instant, delivered in the report of the said committee, which was read. And the said Report being again read, by paragraphs, was...
Date: 24 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee appointed yesterday for that purpose, brought in and reported a draft of a letter, and also a draught of instructions to the agents for superintending the removal of the cannon and stores from Ticonderoga.
Mr. [Isaac] Low informed the Congress that he had been informed that some of the inhabitants of the northern counties in this Colony have designs of making incursions into the...
Date: 25 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Captain Asa Douglas, by a message in writing directed and delivered to the President, requested to be admitted to the Congress, to communicate a matter of some moment.
Ordered, That the doorkeeper desire Mr. Douglas to attend.
Captain Asa Douglas attending at the door, was called in and heard; and Messrs. Lewis Graham, Walter Livingston, Joseph Robinson, and Henry Williams, are appointed a...
Date: 26 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A letter from Abraham Lott, Esqr., contractor for supplying his Majesty's Ships in this port, to this Congress (covering an order of this day from the purser of the ship Asia for provisions,) and requesting the favour that this Congress will be pleased to signify their opinion, whether the order shall be complied with and, also whether he shall be at liberty to supply the said ship with such...
Date: 27 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter of the 27th instant by express from the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, on behalf of the Genera1 Assembly of that Colony was read.
The copy of the Letter [from Colonel Benedict Arnold, dated] Crown Point, May 23d, 1775, [enclosed in the Letter from Governor Trumbull was also read.]
The committee of correspondence (according to order,) brought in and...
Date: 29 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. [John Morin] Scott moved the subject matter of the resolves of the Continental Congress on the 25th of May instant, and transmitted to this Congr, be immediately taken into consideration . . .
Ordered, That Captain [Richard] Montgomerie, Mr. [Henry] Glen, Mr. Robert Yates, Colo. [James] Van Cortlandt and Colo [James] Holmes be a Committee to view the ground at or near King's Bridge, and...
Date: 30 May 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A draught of a letter to the sub-committee of the city and county of Albany, was read, and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:
In Provincial Congress, at New York, June 1st, 1775.
Gentlemen ー Agreeable to the minute of the Grand Congress, we (being unable as you know to garrison Ticonderoga, Crown Point, or Fort George,) made application to the eastern Colonies for their...
Date: 1 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Committee appointed to view the ground near King's Bridge, delivered in their Report, and a map or Draft of the place thereto annexed.
Ordered, That the said report lay on the table for the perusal and infmation of members.
Date: 2 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Congress ordered the stores, men and things (hereafter mentioned) to be provided by Peter T. Curtenius2 and forwarded to Albany, and that the several articles for that purpose herinaf ter mentioned, be provided by the Commissioners at Albany, that the whole may be forwarded to the south end of Lake George, viz:
A List of Men and articles to be procured by Peter T. Curtenius and...
Date: 3 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Congress than took into consideration the case of Robert and John Murray, which lies before this Congress by a general reference from the Contimental Congress, and after some time spent therein, it was ordered to be deferred for further consideration.
Date: 7 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris, from the Committee for that purpose, reported a draught of a Letter to the New-York Delegates at the Continental Congress, on the subject of erecting a Fortification at King's Bridge. The same was read and approved of, and is in the words following:
In Provincial Congress, New-York, June 7, 1775
Gentlemen:
Upon receiving the resolutions of the Congress which relate to...
Date: 7 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Thomas Wickham, having the care of Gardner's island, which is much exposed to having the stock taken off by armed vessels for the use of the King's troops at Boston, or elsewhere, and the said island being in a defenceless state, desires the advice of this board, whether he be permitted to take pay for said stock, in case it is not in his power to prevent their taking the same.
After some time...
Date: 8 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Mr. [Isaac] Sears informed this Congress that the following small quantities of gunpowder, formerly delivered out of the magazines in this city for sale, yet remain unsold, to wit: One hundred weight in the care of Messrs. Woodward & Kipp; one hundred weight in the care of Jeremiah Platt; about twenty pounds in the care of Messrs. Berrian and Fish, 100 lb. of damaged powder in the care of...
Date: 9 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Mayor of the City of New-York, attending at the door, was called in, and informed the Congress that application had been made to him respecting some arms lately taken out of the baggage carts of the troops, lately embarking from this city; ー and he delivered a letter from his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor to him on that subject, which was read ー and thereupon, Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris moved (...
Date: 10 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Colo. [James] Clinton and Mr. [Christopher] Tappen, a committee for that purpose, reported a draft of a letter to the New-York Delegates, which was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit:
In Provincial Congress, New York, June 13th, 1775.
Gentlemen: In consequence of one of your Resolves, we appointed a Committee to view the Post in the Highlands, whose report, with a...
Date: 13 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Messrs. Christopher Miller and Patrick Dennis, attending at the door, were called in when they informed this Congress that they were requested by a number of the members of the Marine Society of this city,2 to inform this Congress that they were about to form themselves into an artillery company, and they had nominated Mr. Anthony Rutgers, of this city, for their captain and pray the...
Date: 14 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Congress resumed the consideration of Mr. [John] Foster's motion of yesterday; and thereupon,
Ordered, That a message be immediately dispatched to Major-General [David] Wooster, now commanding a body of troops in the southern part of Connecticut, requesting him forthwith to march the said Troops with their tents and other necessaries to the distance of five miles from this city, to be subject...
Date: 15 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
Captain Jeffrey, the captain of the packet, being requested to attend this Congress, and attending at the door, was called in, and, in substance informed the Congress, that on Tuesday last [June 13], about thirty leagues to the southeast of Sandy Hook, he saw the Spry man of war, now a transport, with part of the forty-Fourth Regiment on board. That he was informed by some of the officers of the...
Date: 17 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A Letter from Major General [David] Wooster, dated the 17th inst., was read and filed, and is in the words following, to wit:
[See Wooster's letter of that date.]
The Mayor of the city informed the President that without the aid of this Congress, Captain [George] Vandeput, of the Ship Asia, cannot get any small necessaries for himself or his ship; and that Capt. Vandeput requests such aid of the...
Date: 20 June 1775
Volume: Volume 1