FREDERICK WEISSENFELS AND OTHERS TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

New-York, June 6, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: As we have ever been heartily attached to the cause of our Country, so we are now ready to engage in the defence of its rights; and as we understand Troops are soon to be raised in this Province, we think it a duty incumbent on us to offer our service.

Should you think proper to confide in us, and appoint us, respectively, to the command of a company, we shall study to conduct ourselves in such a manner as to merit your approbation.

We are, with the greatest respect, gentlemen, your most humble servants

To the Honourable Provincial Congress of the Province of New-York.

PIERPONT EDWARDS TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

New-York, June 6, 1775.

SIR: I am now on my way to Connecticut; shall therefore be much obliged to the Congress of this Province for giving me the fullest information of the measures they have adopted, that I may communicate them to the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut.

As it will be impossible for me to give them an accurate account, relying merely on memory, I shall esteem it a favour to be furnished with attested copies of those parts of the Minutes of the Congress which contain the most important Resolutions and Orders.

I intend to set out to-morrow morning, and shall esteem myself happy in having an opportunity to execute any commands that the Congress may have to the Eastward.

I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

PIERPONT EDWARDS.

Peter V. B. Livingston, Esquire.

KINGSTON (ULSTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK,) COMMITTEE.

Kingston, June 6, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Whereas, there is a dispute now subsisting between me and you, gentlemen of the Committee of this Town; and considering that unanimity is necessary for the preservation of our rights and liberties at this critical juncture, the welfare of individuals, and for my own interest in paiticular, I do most earnestly request, if it be possible, that we may come to an amicable reconciliation, by the following concessions:

First. That I am very sorry so great a misunderstanding has so long subsisted between us, respecting the difference in opinion of the Resolves of the Continental Congress.

Secondly. I earnestly entreat that the gentlemen of the Committee will forgive me all the offences and transgressions, wherein I have offended and injured them in their respective reputations or characters, either in their publick or private capacities.

JACOBUS LOW.

At a Meeting of the Committee of the Town of Kingston, in Ulster County, on the sixth day of June, 1775:

It is hereby certified to all whom it may concern, that Mr. Jacobus Low, of said Town of Kingston, personally appeared before us, and did make all such reasonable satisfaction (by publick concession) as was required relative to his former conduct. And we recommend to the publick, that from henceforth he may again be received as a friend to the liberties and privileges of British-America.

By order of the Committee:

JOHANNES SLEGST, Chairman.

I am both disposed and willing to forgive all injuries and damages which I have sustained in consequence of divers advertisements.

JACOBUS LOW.

CAPT. HENRY B. LIVINGSTON TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Claremont, June 6, 1775.

SIR: Yesterday I received my warrant (which permits me the liberty I now take) from Captain Shelden, a member of the Committee appointed for Dutchess County. It was not without surprise I received a commission inferiour to that I have been honoured with. But the reflection, that the Congress will undoubtedly supply places of higher rank with more experienced officers, soon rid me of the disagreeable sensations my degradation had excited, and determined me to accept of the commission offered, with a fixed resolution to be as useful to my Country as the station I am placed in will allow me. I have this day enlisted ten men, and have provided quarters and provisions for my whole complement, at the rate of eight shillings per week for each man. The men I have enlisted bear good characters, and to appearance are healthy, lively, and of robust constitutions; proper persons will be appointed to inspect them by Saturday next. Few of them will be able to furnish shoes, stockings, arms, &c. You will infinitely oblige me if you would lay this matter before the Congress, and use your endeavours to get arms sent to us as expeditiously as possible, as the disciplining them will be much retarded for want of them. I can enlist many who have those necessaries, but this will take up more time, and perhaps hinder me from getting men so fit for action as those I now have A fifer, I believe, cannot be found in this part of the Country; a drummer I have engaged. The rest of my task shall, with all diligence, be performed. Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

HENRY B. LIVINGSTON.

To Peter V. B. Livingston, Esquire, President of the Provincial Congress of New-York.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE.

At a full meeting of the Delegates from the several Towns in the County of Cumberland, Colony of New-York, convened at Westminster, June 6, 1775:

The County of Cumberland having received certain intelligence from Mr. Isaac Low, Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence at New-York, that it is the desire of the said respectable Committee of Correspondence at New-York, that the sense of the people in said County of Cumberland should be fully known with regard to the hostile measures that are using by the British Parliament to enforce the late cruel, unjust, and oppressive Acts of the said British Parliament, through the British, Colonies in America: We, the Delegates from the several Towns and Districts in said County of Cumberland, being chosen by the freeholders and inhabitants of the same, to exhibit to the Provincial Congress the sense and voice of the people with regard to the unjust proceedings of the British Parliament, &c., do pass the following Resolves:

1. Resolved, nem. con., That the late Acts of the British Parliament, passed in order to raise a revenue in America, are unjust, illegal, and diametrically opposite to the Bill of Rights, and a fundamental principle of the British Constitution, which is, “that no person shall have his property taken from him without his consent.”

2. Resolved, nem. con., That we will resist and oppose the said Acts of Parliament, in conjunction with our brethren in America, at the expense of our lives and fortunes, to the last extremity, if our duty to God and our Country require the same.

3. Resolved, nem. con., That we think it needless to pass many resolves exhibiting our sentiments with regard to the unhappy controversy subsisting Between Great Britain and America. Let it suffice, therefore, that we fully acquiesce with what our brethren have lately done at New-York, in their late Association; and it is hereby resolved that the late Association entered into at New-York is perfectly agreeable to the sentiments of the freeholders and inhabitants of this County, and that they fully acquiesce in the same.

4. Resolved, nem. con., That this County is at present in a very broken situation with regard to the civil authority. We therefore sincerely desire that the advice of the honourable Congress may be by our Delegates transmitted to us, whereby some order and regularity may be established

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