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Pierpont Edwards, one of a Committee from Connecticut

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Monday, May 29, 1775.

Pierpoint Edwards, Esquire, one of a Committee from the Assembly of Connecticut to this Congress, attended with certain propositions and instructions, which were received and read, and ordered to be referred for further consideration.

Messrs˙ Daniel Hendrickson and Nicholas Van Brunt, from the Township of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth, produced a certificate that the said Township had chosen a Committee of Observation pursuant to the directions of the Continental Congress, and that they had elected these gentlemen as Deputies to represent the said Township in this Congress. The said certificate was allowed and filed.

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