be reduced to necessitous circumstances in this time of publick calamity. We therefore desire that Friends may be liberal, according to their circumstances, and speedy in their contributions; and are your loving friends.

Signed in and on behalf of our meeting for sufferings, held in Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, the sixth day of the seventh mouth, 1775.

JOHN PEMBERTON, Clerk.

NEW-YORK DELEGATES TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Philadelphia, July 6, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: We have the honour of your favour of the twenty-ninth June, accompanying your plan and proceedings respecting an accommodation with the Parent State. Nothing could be more interesting or acceptable to us, than a communication of the sentiments and wishes of our worthy constituents on this most important subject; and while we applaud the wisdom of your decisions, we beg you to be assured that they shall command our most earnest and respectful attention.

Deeply sensible of the calamities of a civil war, we have nothing more at heart than to be instrumental in compromising this unnatural quarrel between the two Countries, on the solid basis of mutual justice and constitutional liberty; and the most strenuous efforts, on our part, shall be exerted with unremitting ardour, to accomplish this salutary purpose.

We acknowledge, with the utmost gratitude, the deference, you are pleased to pay to our judgment, and your delicacy in leaving us unrestrained, in a point of all others the most essential to yourselves and your posterity, to the Continent of America, and the whole British Empire; and happy shall we esteem ourselves if, in the discharge of this difficult and arduous trust, we shall merit your approbation and the confidence of our Country.

We have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, gentlemen, your most obedient humble servants,

Provincial Congress of New-York.

P. S. We have unanimously agreed to be silent on that article in the Plan of Accommodation which asserts, “That no earthly legislature or tribunal ought, or can of right interfere or interpose, in any wise howsoever, in the religious and ecclesiastical concerns of the Colonies.” As the inhabitants of the Continent are happily united in a political creed, we are of opinion that it would be highly imprudent to run the risk of dividing them by the introduction of disputes foreign to the present controversy, especially as the discussion of them can be attended with no one single advantage. They are points about which mankind will forever differ, and therefore should always, and at least in times like these, be kept out of sight. We are the more confirmed in these sentiments by this circumstance, that both this and the former Congress have cautiously avoided the least hint on subjects of this kind, all the members concurring in a desire of burying all disputes on ecclesiastical points, which have for ages had no other tendency than that of banishing peace and charity from the world.

N. B. The other Delegates are absent.

ELIZABETHTOWN (NEW-JERSEY) COMMITTEE TO COMMITTEE OF NEW-YORK.

Committee Chamber, Elizabethtown, July 6 1775.

SIR: We, have just received information that one William McLeod, son of Captain McLeod of this place, lately appointed an Ensign in the Fifty-Second Regiment at Boston, left this Town ear1y this morning and went to New-York, in order to take passage from thence to join his Regiment. We have thought fit to give you this intelligence that you may do what you think proper on the occasion. As soon as we got notice of his departure for such a purpose, his baggage was detained. By order of the Committee:

JONA. HAMPTON, Chairman.

To the General Committee of New-York.

New-York, July 6, 1775.

The following gentlemen, appointed Captains by the Provincial Congress for the enlistment of volunteers to enter into the service for the defence of the liberties of America, in the first battalion, to be raised for the City of New-York, under the command of Colonels McDougall and Ritzema, have thought proper to make publick the following places of rendezvous, and the encouragement to volunteers.

Captain John Weissenvelt and Captain Gershom Mott, at Mr. Foster Lewis’s, innholder, near Beekman’s Slip; Captain Willet, at Mr. Abraham Van Dyck’s, innholder, in the Broadway; Captain Jacob Cheesman, at Mr. John Rutter’s, in Cherry-street; Captain Samuel Broome, at Mr. Foster Lewis’s; Captain John Quackenbos, at Mr. Abraham Van Dyck’s, Mr. Edward Bardin’s, Chapel-street, innholder, and Mr. Foster Lewis’s; Captain John Johnson, at Mr. Edward Bardin’s; Captain William Goforth, at Mr. Abraham Van Dyck’s; Captain-Lieutenant John Copp, acting in the absence of Captain Richard Varick, private Secretary to General Schuyler, at Captain Josiah Banks’s, in Little Dock-street, near the Exchange, and at Mr. Wm. Mariner’s, in Horse and Cart-street, innholders; Captain Van Wyck, at Mr. Abraham van Dyck’s.

Volunteers, from the time of their enlistment, to enter into immediate pay, at one shilling and eleven pence per day; and also to receive one dollar per week until they are encamped, in order to enable them to support themselves in the intermediate time. And they are likewise to be provided with a suit of regimental clothes, a fire-lock, ammunition, accoutrements, and every other article necessary for the equipment of American soldiers.

GOD save the Congresses.

EDWARD MOTT TO GOVERNOR TRUMBULL.

Albany, July 6, 1775.

HONOURED SIR: I arrived here last night, ten o’clock, from Ticonderoga; am sent express by Colonel Hinman to acquaint the Committee at this place, and also the Provincial Congress at New-York, with the condition of the troops and garrisons at Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George; expect to set out from hence for New-York to-morrow; have not as yet waited on the Committee here, but write these lines by Captain Stevens, who will not tarry, but sets out for home this morning. When arrived at Ticonderoga, Colonel Hinman had no command there., as Colonel Arnold refused to let him command, either of the garrisons, but had given the command of Ticonderoga to Captain Herrick, from whom Colonel Hinman’s men were obliged to take their orders, or were not suffered to pass to and from the garrison. The same day a Committee of three gentlemen from the Massachusetts, viz: Mr. spooner, Colonel Foster, and Colonel Sullivan, returned to Ticonderoga from Crown Point, and informed us that they had been to Colonel Arnold, with orders from the Congress requiring him to resign the command to Colonel Hinman, and that he, with his regiment, should come under the command of said Hinman; which said Arnold positively refused; on which said Committee discharged Colonel Arnold from their service, and desired the privilege to speak with the people who had engaged under Arnold, but were refused. They further informed that Colonel Arnold and some of his people were gone on board the vessels; that they understood they threatened to go to St. John’s and deliver the vessels to the. Regulars, and that Arnold had disbanded all his troops but those that were on board said vessels; that they were treated very ill and threatened, and after they came away in a batteau, they were fired upon with swivel-guns and small-arms Arnold’s people; and that Colonel Arnold and his men had got both the vessels and were drawn off into the lake. On which I desired Colonel Hinman to let me, with Lieutenant Halsey and Mr. Duer, (who was Judge of the Court for the County of Charlotte, in this Colony,) with some men to row, have a batteau and proceed up the lake, and go on board the vessels. We obtained liberty, and Colonel Sullivan consented