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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 --THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1775
The Congress met according to adjournment.
The Committee appointed to consider ways and means to supply these colonies with ammunition and military stores, brought in their report, which was read, and referred to the committee of the whole.
Upon Motion, Resolved, That it be recommended to the Government of Connecticut, or the general of the forces
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of that colony, to appoint Commissaries to receive at Albany and forward the supplies of provisions, for the forces on lake Champlain, from the provincial Convention of New York, and that the sd Convention use their utmost endeavours in facilitating and aiding the transportation thereof, from thence to where the sd Commissaries may direct.
As this Congress has nothing more in view than the defence of these colonies,
Resolved, That no expedition or incursion ought to be undertaken or made, by any colony, or body of colonists, against or into Canada; and that this Resolve be immediately transmitted to the commander of the forces at Ticonderoga.
Ordered, That the above resolve be translated into the french Language and transmitted, with the letter, to the inhabitants of Canada--also,
Ordered, That the president transmit a copy of the above to New York, and the other colonies bordering on Canada; and that in his letter to Govr. Trumbull acquaint him that it is the desire of the Congress that he appoint a proper person in whom he can confide to command the forces at Crown Point and Ticonderoga.
The Congress then, agreeable to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the state of America, and after some time spent therein, the president resumed the chair, and Mr. [Samuel] Ward reported from the Committee, that they had taken the matters referred to them, into consideration, but not having yet come to a conclusion, desired him to move for leave to sit again.
Resolved, That this Congress will, to Morrow, again resolve itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their farther consideration the state of America.
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A petition from "the Committee representing the people in that part of Augusta county, in the colony of Virginia, on the west side of the Allegeny Mountain," being laid before the Congress and read, intimating fears of a rupture with the Indians on Accot of Ld Dunmore's imprudent conduct, and desiring "commissioners from the colony of Virginia, and province of Pensylvania, to attend a meeting of the Indians at Pitsburgh, on behalf of these colonies." Also a resolve of the sd committee in these words, viz. "That the unsettled boundary between this colony and the province of Pensylvania is the occasion of many disputes."1
[Note 1: 1 The petition from Virginia is not in the Papers of the Continental Congress.]
Ordered, That the above be referred to the delegates of the colonies of Virginia and Pensylvania.
Adjourned till to Morrow at 9 o'Clock.
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