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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1775
The congress met according to adjournment and agreeable to the order of the day resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into their further consideration the state of America. During the debate the delegates from Pennsylvania moved for leave to lay some papers before the Congress, which being granted After some time the President resumed the chair and the papers just received being read were referred to the consideration of the committee of the whole. Whereupon the committee sat again and after some time spent, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward reported from the committee that they had proceeded farther in the business recommended to them, but not yet having finished, they have desired him to move for leave to sit again.
Resolved, That the Congress will, to Morrow, again resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration the state of America.
A Letter from Col. Arnold, dated Crown Point, 23 May, 1775, was laid before the Congress, informing that he had certain intelligence, that "on the 19th there were then 400 regulars at St. John's, making all possible preparations
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to cross the lake, and expected to be joined by a number of Indians, with a design of retaking Crown-point and Ticonderogo," and earnestly calling for a reinforcement and supplies. This letter being taken into consideration,1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is not in the Papers of the Continental Congress.]
Resolved, That the Governor of Connecticut be requested immediately to send a strong reinforcement to the garrisons of Crown Point and Ticonderogo, and that so many of the cannon and other stores be retained, as may be necessary for the immediate defence of those posts, until further orders from this Congress, and that the provincial Convention of New York be informed of this resolve, and desired to furnish those troops with provisions and other necessary stores, and to take effectual care that a sufficient number of Batteaus be immediately provided for the lakes.
Ordered, That the above resolve be immediately transmitted in a letter by the prest, to Govr Trumbull, and the convention of New York.
Ordered, That the president in his letter acquaint Govr Trumbull, that it is the desire of Congress, that he shd appoint a person, in whom he can confide, to command the forces at Crown Point and Ticonderogo.
∥Adjourned till to Morrow at 9 o'Clock.∥
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