VIRGINIA'S PREPARATIONS 23 point 100 for Fincastele, these last & very Deservedly have met with oposition, many Schemes of Jobing may be Discovered here but this is no new thing- resolves are entred into for ye Encouragement of making Saltpeter, Sulphur [and] Gunpowder The Delegates to ye Gen' Congress that meet next month are Pay[ton]. Randolph, B. Harrison, R. H. Lee, T. Jefferson, T. Nelson, F L Lee, G° Wythe. A Committee of Safety who are to answer to the Execu- tive part of Govmt Consisting of 11 persons are ap- pointed visz. Ed Pendelton, Go Mason, Jn° Page, Richd Bland, F. L. Lee, Paul Carrinton, Dudley Diggs, wm Cable [Cabell], Carter Braxton, James Mercer, Jn° Tabb. An Ordinance is in great for- wardness for paying off last years Expenses. our proportion of the Continental army to ye lth [first] Janr. 150 000, ye Regulars minute men militia &c &c &c will leave us at ye End of the year in a Debt not easily Discharged, I perhaps put it too much in my former Letter, it however will be very Great, The Colony [ies] are by Congress Divided into three Dis- tricts for ye Conveniency .of treating with the Indians 4 7 & Gentlemen appointed for that purpose. Carlton

turbance his house was sacked and he subjected to much vio- lence. He died on Montour's Island in I803.-ED. 47 July I2th, I775, the Continental Congress determined to organize three departments for Indian affairs, of which the Pittsburgh and Western Virginia region constituted the cen- tral. The next day commissioners were chosen for that de- partment in the persons of Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and James Wilson. In September following, Lewis Morris was appointed in the place of Franklin, who was unable to attend, to conduct the treaty at Pittsburgh; and Dr. Thomas Walker was chosen in the place of Patrick Henry, who de- clined the commissionership. These three congressional com-