1. In this resolution the colonies that had recently furnished militia for the defense of New York City were “desired speedily to transmit to Congress, authenticated muster rolls, and accounts of monies due to such respective militias, in order to their being immediately settled and discharged” (JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 4:312).

2. Isaac Sears’s letter to GW of 2 May concerns the regulation of the price of tea. No action was taken on this matter until 17 Oct. 1776 when the New York committee of safety, finding that some New York merchants had charged twice the price for tea allowed by the Continental Congress and that others had withheld tea from sale to create an artificial scarcity and further increase the price, resolved that the various county committees of safety in the state should seize all tea in excess of 25 pounds found in the possession of any individual and sell it in small quantities to the public at 6s. a pound (N.Y. Prov. Congress Journals description begins Journals of the Provincial Congress, Provincial Convention, Committee of Safety, and Council of Safety of the State of New-York, 1775–1776–1777. 2 vols. Albany, 1842. (Microfilm Collection of Early State Records). description ends , 1:682–83).