Letter to Jacobus Wynkoop

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A Letter from Colonel James Holmes to Captain Jacobus Wynkoop, dated at Ticonderoga, on the 7th day of December last, was read and filed.

Pursuant to a Resolution of the Provincial Congress of the 3d of November last, he therein directs Captain Wynkoop to make an immediate stoppage in the pay of Thomas Hampton, James Davenport, and Henry May, late deserters from Captain Wynkoop' s Company, in Colonel Holmes' s Regiment, to reimburse the sum of thirteen Pounds eight Shillings and seven Pence, expended and paid by the Provincial Congress for apprehending the said deserters.

Captain Wynkoop, at the door, informs a Member that he has stopped the said sum out of the pay of the said deserters, and has the money ready to pay to this Congress, or their order.

Ordered, That Captain Jacobus Wynkoop pay to Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq˙, Treasurer of this Congress, the sum of thirteen Pounds eight Shillings and seven Pence, now in his hands, stopped out of the pay of Thomas Hampton, James Davenport, and Henry May, three deserters from his Company, in the Regiment late Colonel Holmes' s, to replace the money advanced and paid out of the said Treasury for the apprehending and sending back of the said deserters to their Regiment; and that Captain Wynkoop, on behalf of Colonel Holmes, take a receipt of the Deputy Treasurer for that sum.

Francis Lewis, Esq˙, having informed this Congress that he has brought from Philadelphia the separate sums for which the Delegates of this Colony had obtained warrants from the Continental Congress, and requested the direction of this Congress as to the said money:

Thereupon, Ordered, That Francis Lewis, Esq˙, pay to Peter V˙ B˙ Livingston, Esq˙, Treasurer of the Provincial Congress of this Colony, the sum of twelve thousand Dollars, and the further sum of thirty-five thousand Dollars, amounting together to the sum of forty-seven thousand Dollars, obtained on two warrants from the Continental Congress. That Mr˙ Lewis deliver such receipts, or audited accounts, as he may have taken for any part of that money to the said Treasurer as cash, and that he take the Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer' s receipt for the same.