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Correspondence of Governor William Livingston
1778-1779

17 June 1778	The President of the Continental Congress, at Yorktown, to the Governor—Commenting upon the course of the enemy, calling for reinforcements, and informing him of an embargo laid on provisions of all kinds
10 September 1778	Quarter-Master-General Charles Pettit, at White Plains, to General Washington—Relating to Forage
29 September 1778	Governor Livingston to the Legislature—Enclosing the two foregoing letters
17 September 1778	Jonathan Elmer to the Legislature—Accepting the appointment of Delegate to Congress
2 November 1778	Colonel Benjamin Holme, at Cumberland to the Governor—Resigning his commission
11 November 1778	Nathaniel Scudder, Gouverneur Morris and William Whipple, a Committee of Congress, at Philadelphia, to the Governor—Desiring enquiries to be instituted into the agricultural resources of the states
2 December 1778	P. Scull, Secretary of the Board of War, to the Governor—Answering complaints of a want of clothing by the New Jersey troops
29 April 1779	Frederick Frelinghuysen, Delegate to the Continental Congress, to Caleb Camp, Speaker of the Assembly—Resigning his seat
25 September 1779	Colonel John Taylor, on Raritan, to the Governor—Respecting the State Regiment
27 September 1779	General Washington, at West Point, to the Governor—Recommending vigorous preparations in view of a co-operation with an expected French squadron
27 September 1779	Enos Kelsey, at Princeton, to the Speaker of the Assembly—Giving an estimate of supplies required for the Jersey Brigade
22-25 October 1779	Proceedings of the Legislature of New York, on a proposition of the Legislature of New Jersey, for a general regulation and limitation of Prices
25 October 1779	Pierre Van Cortlandt, President of the Senate, and Evert Bancker, Speaker of the Assembly of the State of New York, to the Governor and Speaker of the Assembly—Transmitting the foregoing Proceedings
30 October 1779	Isaac Collins to the Legislative Council—In answer to a call for the author of an article signed " Cincinnatus," in the New Jersey Gazette

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