Resolved, That Congress, by raising and officering the regiment commanded by Colonel Warner, never meant to give any encouragement to the claim of the people aforesaid, to be considered as an independent State ; but that the reason which induced Congress to form that corps was, that many officers of different States, who had served in Canada, and ailedged that they would soon raise a regiment, but were then unprovided for, might be reinstated in the service of the United States.

Whereas a printed' paper, addressed to the inhabitants of the district aforesaid, dated Philadelphia, 11 April, 1777, and subscribed ' Thomas Young," was laid before Congress on the 234

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instant, by the Delegates of ew York, to which address is prefixed the resolution of Congress of the 15' of May, 1776, and in which are contained the following paragraphs :

" Thave taken the minds of several of the leading members " of the Honorable the Continental Congress, and can assure you " that you have nothing to do but to send attested copies of the " recommendation to take up government to every township in "in your district, and invite all the freeholders and inhabitants 'to meet in their respective townships, and chuse members for "a general convention to meet at an early day to chuse Delegates " for the general Congress and Committee of Safety, and to form a

" Constitution for your State----Your friends here tell me, that |