Meeting of the Governour and Committee of War for Connecticut

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Tuesday, June 20, 1775.

Met according to adjournment.

An Order subjecting our Officers and Soldiers to the command of the Massachusetts Commander-in-Chief, during their continuance in that Province, or until further orders, was read and agreed to.

A Letter to General Ward, informing him thereof, and enclosing a copy of said Order, read and approved.

A Letter to Deputy Governour Cook, of Rhode-Island, informing him of the same, and moving him to do the same respecting the Troops of that Colony, read and approved.

A Letter to the New-Hampshire Congress of the like tenour, and for the same purpose, also read and approved.

A Letter to General Spencer enclosing a copy of said order of subordination, &c˙, read and approved.

And another to the same purpose, and copy to General Putnam.

An order to General Wooster, to send two of his Companies to New-London, and march with the remaining seven, and all Colonel Waterbury' s Regiment, to within five miles of New-York, and be under the direction of the General and Provincial Congresses, till further orders, read and approved.

A Letter to said General Wooster, enclosing said orders, &c˙, prepared, read, and approved.

A Letter to our Delegates at Congress, prepared, passed, &c.

Voted, That his Honour be desired to send to Hartford, and order the Powder which was coming from New-York, and stopped at Stanford, if not come forward, to be sent for and forwarded immediately to the Army near Boston.

And then adjourned without day.