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These records document the Provincial Congress's direction of the internal affairs of New York as an extralegal administrative body operating outside of the British colonial government administration.

There are depositions, correspondence, accounts, instructions, and extracts from minutes of various committees concerning: supplying arms, ammunition, clothing, and other stores to troops; bounty payments to soldiers; payments to officers; raising troops; orders and instructions to military commanders and militia; requests for exemption from military service; desertions of soldiers; enemy troop movement; actions of British colonial government officials; accusations against loyalists or persons suspected of loyalty to Great Britain; and various currencies in use and payment of debts.