Resolved that from the above Letters and from other information rec4. by this Council it appears that many people in the Eastern district of this State are endeavoring to erect the same into a seperate & independant State--That some artful & designing persons among tlrem pretend to have received encouragemt, thereto from members of the lon. the Congress--

Resolved that a Letter be written to our Delegates at Congress

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enclosing copies of the above Letters & the report of Committee for settling the boundaries of this State--

Resolved 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, 1777,

[Miscellaneous Papers XXXVII.]

Monpay, 30th June, 1777.

Coneress, 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 Convention of the State of Wew York, dated 20 January and 1st March, 1777; the resolutions passed in Committee of Safety for the State of New York, at Fishiill, 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 ew Hampshire Grants, dated New Hampshire Grants, Westminster, 15th January, 1777; a letter from Pierre Van Cortlandt, Esq; President of the Council, of Safety of Mew 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 April 1777, laid before Congress the 23d instant by the Delegates of JVew York, and after some time, the President resumed the chair, and Mr.