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944 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
enclosing copies of the above Letters & the report of Committee
for settling the boundaries of this StateResolved that Maj. Wheelock be requested to repair to Philadelphia to give the necessary information to our delegates there
of the present situation of the eastern district of this State.
RESOLUTIONS OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, June 30, 177.
[Miscellaneous Papers XXXVII.]
MONDAY, 30th June, 1777.
CONGRESS, agreeably to the order of the day, resolved itself
into a Committee of the whole, to take into consideration the
letters from Abraham Ten Broeck, Esq; President of the Conven-.tion of the State of Jrew York, dated 20th January and 1st March,
1777; the resolutions passed in Committee of Safety for the State
of Jew York, at Fishkill, the 20th of January, 1777, transmitted
with the above letters; a petition signed Jonas Fay, Thomas Chittenden, Heman Allen and Reuben Jones, in the name and behalf
of the people stiling themselves inhabitants of the JNew Hampshire
Grants, dated Jew Hampshire Grants, Westminster, 15th January,
1777; a letter from Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esq; President of the
Council of Safety of J\ew York, dated 28th May, 1777; and a
printed paper, signed "A word to the wise is sufficient, containing an extract from the minutes'of Congress, and a letter to
the inhabitants of Vermont, signed Thomas Young, dated Philadelphia, 11th.lpril 1777, laid before Congress the 23d instant
by the Delegates of Jew York, and after some time, the President
resumed the chair, and Mr. Harrison reported, That the Committee have had under consideration the letters and papers to
them referred, and have come to sundry Resolutions thereupon,
which he is ready to report whenever the Congress shall please
to receive them.
Ordered, That the report be now received.
The report from the Committee of the whole was then read,
and agreed to, as follows: