Heath

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A Letter from Brigadier General Heath was received and read, in the words following, to wit:

"City of New-York, April 1, 1776.

"GENTLEMEN: I find myself necessitated to request of you two thousand and twenty-five Dollars and five-ninths of a Dollar; for Continental purposes.

"I am, gentlemen, with esteem, your most humble servant,

"WILLIAM HEATH, Brigadier-General.

"To Committee of Safety, New-York."

Thereupon, Ordered, That Peter Van Brugh Livingston. Esquire, as Treasurer of the Provincial Congress of this Colony, advance to Brigadier-General Heath the sum of two thousand and twenty-five Dollars and five-ninths of a Dollar, for Continental purposes, and take a receipt for the same on Continental account.