On the following day, [May 26, 1775,] the Continental Congress further " Reholved, That it be recom- " mended to the Congrojis aforesiiid, to persevere the " more vigorously iu preparing for their defence, as it " is very uncertain whether the earnest endeavours of " this Congress to accommodate the unhappy diJierences " between Great Britain and the Colonies, by concilia- " tory measures, will be successful ; " and, in addition, it "Ordered, That the above Resolves, respecting " New-York, be transmitted by the President in a let- " ter, to the Provincial Congress of New- York ; and " that it be particularly recommended to said Con- " gress, by the President, not to publish the foregoing " Resolves, but to keep them as secret as the nature of " the cii.se requires.'" -

On the twenty-ninth of May, the Resolutions I which had been thus adopted by the Continental Congress, were received by the Provincial Congress ; ■* and on the following day, on motion of .Tohn Morin

1 Journal nf the CoAlinmtal Congreff, " Thursday, May 2.i, 17T.>.'" 5 Jmtmal of thf C/>ntint*ntat C<r>ngr»»«, " Friday, May 2H, 177.5."

Jimi-vnl of the Pi-nrittcuil CongrrMi^ *' Dies Lun.'V^, 4 ho., P.M., May 2ii'>i, 177.1."

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Scott, of the City of New-York, they were taken into coasideration -- that portion of them which directed the fortifying of Kiugsbridge, w;ls referred to Captain Richard Montgoniery, of Ducheas-county, llenry Glenn' and Robert Yates, of AJbany-county, and Colj quel .lames Van Cortlandt aud Colonel James I Holmes, of Weslchest^r-county, with orders " to view ' " the ground at or near King's Bridge, and re])ort to " this Congress whether the ground near King's "Bridge will admit of making a fortification there, " that will be tenable ; and at what particular place "the ground will admit of making the best and "most tenable fortification : and that they call to "their assistance such persons as they shall think , " neces.sary, aud make re])()rt to this Congress, with all " convenient speed : " that portion of them which directed the erection of fortifications in the Highlands, on the Hudson-river, wjus referred to Colonel James Clinton and Christopher Tappan, both of Ulster-county, with orders to " take to their Jissistance "^such persons as they shall think necessary ; to go to " the Highlands, and view the banks of Hudson's " river there ; aud to report to this Congress the most " proper place for erecting one or more fortifications ; "aud, likewise, an estimate of the expense that will " attend erecting the same." *