Letter from Governour Trumbull to the President of Congress

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[Read July 11, 1776.]

Lebanon, July 6, 1776.

SIR: I received your favour of the 30th of April ultimo, enclosing the resolve of Congress of the 29th of April, requesting that a sum of hard money might be collected and sent to General Schuyler; which was immediately attended to, and the sum of eighteen hundred pounds procured and sent to the Paymaster-General for the Northern Department. The expense of transporting the same to Albany amounts to the sum of twenty-four pounds two shillings and six pence, as you will see by an account thereof which will be laid before you by the Delegates for this Colony.

I have drawn on you for the money procured, and the charges of transporting to Albany, in favour of Roger Sherman and Samuel Huntington, Esqs˙, two of our Delegates in Congress, which, I make no doubt, will be duly honoured.

I am, with great truth and regard, sir, your most obedient and very humble servant,
JONATHAN TRUMBULL.

To the Honourable President Hancock.

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1776 — July 6. Errors excepted.

JONATHAN THUMBULL, Governour.

Lebanon, July 6, 1776.

SIR: Pay to Roger Sherman and Samuel Huntington, Esqs˙, the sum of eighteen hundred and twenty-four pounds two shillings and six pence, lawful money, for eighteen hundred pounds hard money procured by the Colony of Connecticut, and paid to the Paymaster-General for the Northern Department at Albany, agreeably to a resolve of Congress of the 29th of April ultimo, and charges of transporting the same to Albany, and their receipt shall discharge the United Colonies from any demand of the Colony of Connecticut on account for said hard money supplied as aforesaid.

In behalf of the Colony of Connecticut, I am, sir, your obedient humble servant,
JONATHAN TRUMBULL.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq.