| Description | Transmitted in an extract of a letter [from a New York delegate in Congress, James Duane, to the New York Convention], which letter has an additional note [11 Dec] naming several persons appointed 10 Dec to command the fortress in Hudson's River, and is accompanied by a plan for regulating trade with the Indians on the Ohio and for keeping them in peace with the Colonies, the minutes of Congress refer to the safe conveyance to America of vessels laden with goods from France, the resolution, to Washington's instructions to apply to the four New England provinces for help to complete levies |