It continued, therefore, to provide, as best it could, for the wants of the Army, by manufacturing and by purchasing and distributing among the Powder-mills, all the Saltpeter which it could secure ; 13 by making or buying or borrowing Gunpowder, and by distributing it or giving it away ; " by searching for Lead, and opening Mines, and stripping Window-sashes, in Tryon and Albanycounties, and distributing it or giving it away ; 15 and it attended to the search for Sulphur and Flints and Lead, and to the testing of those discovered. 16 It busied itself, also, with the details of distributing Cartridges " and Gunflints. 18 Like the Congresses who had preceded it, it engaged, directly, in the manufacture of Arms and Equipments, including that of Lances, with which somebody induced the Convention to attempt to arm the Militia who had been called into the service ; 19 and it also bought Arms,

"a certain other small road which leads from the Post-road aforesaid, to "the dock, at Dobbs's ferry," were ordered to be repaired ; and requisitions on the Militia of Duchess and Westchester-counties, were made for that particular purpose, (Journal of the Provincial Convention, " 9 ho., "A.M., Octor. 5, 1776.")

11 Journal of the Convention, " Saturday morning, September 28, 1776 ; " Journal of the Committee of Safety, " Die Luna;, 9 ho., A.M., October 7, "1776 ;" the same, " Wednesday afternoon, Octor. 16, 1776 ;" etc.

12 Journal of the Convention, "Die Veneris, 4 ho., P.M., Augt. 2, 1770."