be desired to wait on the Provincial Convention, without delay, and lay before them the Recommendation of the Continental Congress relative to applying to the neighbouring Colonies for Forces.

And the question being put thereon, it was carried in the affirmative, as follows, viz:

Ordered, That Captain Berrian and Mr. Laight be a Sub-Committee to wait on Mr. Anderson, to know whether he chooses to give any answer to Mr. McEvers’s written application to this Committee, which was served upon him last Sunday morning.

Ordered, That Messrs. Brinkerhoff, Ketletas, Sands, F. Jay, Bull, and Curtenius, be a Committee to inquire what quantity of Blankets, Ravens Duck, Osnaburghs, Russia Sheeting, Tin Plates, and Coarse Cloths, are in this City, and to request the favour of the possessors not to part with them for a few days, until the Provincial Congress shall determine on the expediency of detaining them for our own use.

The Committee adjourned to Monday, 29th May, 1775.

NEW-YORK COMMITTEE TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL

New-York, May 22, 1775.

HONOURED SIR: I am directed by the General Committee of Association for this City and County, to transmit to your Honour the enclosed authentick copy of a Resolution of the Continental Congress, received by express; and to inform your Honour, that in consequence thereof, we immediately shipped to Albany one hundred barrels of pork; and that a Select Committee has been appointed to purchase and forward, without delay, cordage, oakum, pitch gins, and every other necessary that may be wanted from hence, to carry into execution the aforesaid Resolution. We have also, by express, desired our brethren at Albany to give their aid and assistance. I have the honour to be, most respectfully, your Honour’s most obedient and humble servant,

HENRY REMSEN, Dep. Chairman.

Honourable Governour Trumbull.

LETTER FROM THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND COMMONALTY OF ALBANY TO THE COMMITTEE FOR PALATINE DISTRICT, TRYON COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

Albany, May 22, 1775.

We this day received yours, without date, directed to the Magistrates and Committee of Albany and Schenectady, and to the Mayor, Corporation, &c., of Albany, wherein you write that you have received repeated accounts that either the New-Englanders, or some persons in or about this City or the Town of Schenectady, are coming up, to a considerable number, to seize and imprison you, on a ridiculous and malicious report that you intend to make the Indians destroy the inhabitants, or to that effect, and that you, in consequence thereof, have been put to the great trouble and expense of fortifying your house, and keeping a large body of men for the defence of your person, &c.

You proceed and say, that the absurdity of this apprehen,sion may easily be seen by men of sense, but that as many credulous and ignorant persons may be led astray, and inclined to believe it, &c., it is become the duty of all those who have authority or influence to disabuse the publick, and prevent consequences which you foresee with very great concern.

We are very sorry to learn from you that any groundless reports should have arisen, and be propagated to your prejudice, considering your character, station, and the large property you have in the County. And we trust that you are so well acquainted with the nature and duties of your office, that you will pursue the dictates of an honest heart, and study the interest, peace, and welfare of your Country; in which case we presume you need not be apprehensive of any injury in your person or property. Neither can we learn nor conceive that there either is or has been any intention of taking you captive, or offering you any indignity whatever, either by the New-England people or any of the inhabitants of this City, or any one else; and we have but too much reason to think that these groundless reports have been raised and industriously propagated, in your own phraseology, by some busy people in your County, to rouse up the Indians from their peaceful habitations, and take up arms against such of our American brethren as are engaged on the part of America in the unhappy contest between Great Britain and her Colonies.

As it appears from your letter that you consider the station wherein you are placed, as Superintendent of Indian affairs, to be of the highest importance to the publick, we hope that you will use all possible means in your power to restore peace and tranquillity among the Indians, and assure them that the report propagated prejudicial to you or to them is totally groundless of any just foundation, and that nothing will afford His Majesty’s subjects in general a greater satisfaction, than to be and continue with them on the strictest terms of peace and friendship.

ALBANY, NEW-YORK, COMMITTEE TO COL. GUY JOHNSON.

Committee Chamber, May 23, 1775.

SIR: Several letters have been handed to us, addressed to the Magistrates of Schenectady and Mayor and Corporation of Albany, some of which you requested to be communicated to us, whereby we, with great concern, observe you are much alarmed with apprehensions of evil intentions against your family, and self in particular, from a body of New-Englanders or people from those parts, so as to put you under the necessity of fortifying yourself for safety. From what cause these terrible ideas have sprung, we are entirely ignorant. If any real ones, you must be better acquainted with them, than we are; however, we do assure you that the first and last knowledge of such designs have come to us from you, and of course must have originated somewhere near you. We are not ignorant of the importance of your office as Superintendent, and have been perfectly easy with respect to any suspicions of the Indians taking a part in the present dispute between Great Britain and her Colonies, knowing them to be a people of too much sagacity to engage with the whole Continent in a controversy that they can profit nothing by, and which would throw them into endless war and misery. As long as they are peaceable, they need not be under apprehensions of hostilities commencing against them.

We have been some time ago informed that there was to be a Congress at your house of the Indians and hope such methods may be taken then as will give them a just sense of the nature of the present disturbances, and that they may govern themselves by such a line of conduct as will appease the minds of such persons in your County as may be uneasy on their account.

The information we have from time to time received, very lately from travellers passing by your house, has given us some pain, as we find the communication betwixt this and your County in a manner stopped, insomuch that no person is permitted to pass without undergoing a strict examination. These proceedings will, if not speedily stopped, raise the resentment of the people, we fear, and cause them to undertake such acts as will not be in the power of any authority to restrain. We would, therefore, be glad, and permit us recommend it seriously to your attention, that you would leave the communication free, and disperse your guards, and not interfere with the meetings of the people, intended solely to concert measures for the preservation of their liberties, in conjunction with the other Counties of this and the rest of His Majesty’s Colonies.