of the same; which Ammunition shall not be distributed without the orders of the Committee of Correspondence of the said County, or until it shall be thought necessary by this Committee, or a majority of them.

Resolved unanimously, That each Company in this County shall use their utmost endeavours to purchase or provide all the Ammunition they can, so that no person in the said Company shall have less than one pound of Powder, and Lead in proportion.

Resolved unanimously, That as soon as the said Companies are formed, they and each of them shall be subject to military regulations and discipline, in the same manner as any other of His Majesty’s Troops are, (corporeal punishment only excepted.)

Resolved unanimously, That in case any person or persons in this County shall refuse to subscribe himself in a roll of some Company in the said County, in order to defend the cause of liberty now contending for, or by any ways or means whatever discourage or disunite the said Associations, that then he or they so offending shall be immediately reported by some of the officers of their respective Townships, to the Committee of Correspondence at Bedford, in order that such steps may be taken as by the said Committee may be thought most prudent; and that, in the mean time, no person or persons within the said County shall, directly or indirectly, have any dealing or commerce, by either buying or selling, borrowing, or lending to or with any of the said offenders.

Resolved unanimously, That all persons within this County that are not at present provided with Guns, Swords, or Tomahawks, in case of ability shall provide for themselves; and in case of inability, that the Captain of each Company shall, immediately transmit their names, or their number, to the Committee of Correspondence at Bedford, that proper measures may be taken in order to provide for them.

Resolved unanimously, That each Township shall meet and choose their Officers, and make return agreeable to the above Resolves, within the space of ten days from this date. By order of the Committee of Correspondence:

DAVID ESPY, Clerk.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ULSTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK, DATED MAY 9, 1775.

A great revolution in political measures has taken place in this County since we received a copy of the Association entered into by your City, with which many of us have ever been desirous to harmonize, especially in such proceedings as were conformable to the general sense of your inhabitants. On this principle, as well as from a full conviction of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of Government, and of uniting with our fellow-subjects in adopting some general plan for obtaining a redress of grievances, on constitutional principles, forwarding the wished-for reconciliation between Great Britain   and America, and preserving peace and good order, the safety of individuals and private property; I say, concurring with you unanimously, so far as I have heard, in these good purposes, the inhabitants of several Precincts met yesterday, and cheerfully agreed to bury in oblivion all past differences that had happened from discordant sentiments respecting the mode proper to be pursued for obtaining a redress of those grievances we have all so loudly complained of, and heartily to join with you in the measures you had taken for restoring internal harmony, peace, and concord, to our convulsed Country, on the brink of being overwhelmed with every species of the most outrageous violence, anarchy, and confusion.

Never were meetings so numerous, general, calm, dispassionate, orderly, or unanimous. In effecting these salutary dispositions, Mr. Mason, Pastor of the Seceders’; Congregation in New-York, has great merit, for his repeated exhortations to the people of his sect here, (to whom he preached at this juncture,) zealously inculcating the doctrines of peace, order, and benevolence, reprehending all acts of violence, outrage, and licentiousness, and exerting all his other influences for enforcing those objects on this occasion. I hope the good seed he has sown will take firm root, produce a British   constitutional plant, and long continue to bear fruit worthy of the husbandman that scattered it. May it never be blasted by the noxious shade of a superincumbent tree, or the poisonous exhalations of surrounding shrubs; but thrive and flourish, and spread a benign farina, impregnating every variety of its species with its virtues, far and near.

It is the ardent wish of my heart, that both the ensuing Continental and Provincial Congress of this Colony, under the influences of a genuine spirit of patriotism and love for this Country, may seriously and calmly consider of and recommend such measures only as will tend to obtain for us a redress of our grievances on constitutional principles; lay a foundation for our speedily having confirmed to us, in the most extensive latitude our local circumstances will admit of, the pure and unmutilated constitutional rights and privileges of free Englishmen, as established at the glorious and happy Revolution, on a basis solid and permanent; and whilst they are firmly actuated by these views and endeavours, I hope they may glow with every sentiment of affection, veneration, and regard for their Parent State, and give every testimony of it, by pursuing and recommending, with all their power, the most healing and conciliatory measures. In these sentiments I am happy in being joined by many, and most of the serious, considerate, sensible freeholders in this County. God send us a good deliverance.

JOEL CLARK TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Farmington, May 9, 1775.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR: I have been too long a soldier to feel my breast unmoved at the sound of my neighbours beating to arms. I feel too much for my distressed and injured Country to see the dangers which threaten it without wishing to share them with my countrymen; and I partake too much of the spirit of those ancestors we boast, not to offer my services at this crisis in any way inconsistent with honour and fidelity to my Country. I take the freedom to address your Honour as the Captain-General of this Colony, and tender therefore my services. I served in the ranks at the age of fifteen, in the reduction of Louisburg, in ’45. I served in every other station in the last war, until I was appointed to the command of a Company in the three last years before the peace; in all which stations I appeal to those in the service for my conduct. Once I received the General’s thanks for my service in a command of four hundred men, in 1760, and the additional pay of a Captain in the regular service. Now this don’t argue either the want of skill or readiness in me of doing my duty. When I saw last winter the appointment of Field Officers by the honourable Assembly, of the Regiment I belong to, I had thoughts which I suppressed. The gentlemen I have no objection to. They may make a figure in peace, and they may make a figure in war. They have never had experience. I now see the danger to which my Country is reduced; and my love to that, and duty to your Honour, demand this offer of my service. I do not apply for want of bread or business of my own. I have enough of both, and a property to defend. The present union of hearts and hands of all ranks of people in the cause, renders it needless for me to take up your Honour’s time. When dangers were represented in the alarm in September   last, I raised a Company at some expense of my own, and was in readiness to march at the confirmation of the news. I know not whether it is in your Honour’s power to give me a proper appointment in the service, but I shall always be satisfied in having done my duty in this address to your Honour, and am, with much respect, your Honour’s most obedient and humble servant,

JOEL CLARK.

Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., Captain-General of the Forces in the Colony of Connecticut.

P. S. If your Honour will condescend to inquire of Generals Wooster, Spencer, Putnam, and Colonels Ward, Wadsworth, Waterbury, Champion, &c., for my character, &c., I shall esteem it as a favour: also Mr. Root, a Representative.

THOMAS HOWELL TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

New-Haven, May 9, 1775.

HONOURED SIR: I have been informed that I had the honour to be nominated by the honourable General Assembly