necessaries for a hospital will be most indispensably necessary. The Troops already here begin severely to feel the want of them.

Please to order all the powder that is made at Judge Livingston’s powder-mill to Albany, with as much despatch as possible, directed to the care of the Deputy Commissary-General, Walter Livingston, Esquire.

The clothing and tents for the Green Mountain Boys, I wish you to forward as soon as possible.

I am, Gentlemen, with great respect, your most obedient humble servant,

PH. SCHUYLER.

To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., &c.

NATHAN CLARK TO GENERAL SCHUYLER.

Dorset, July 28, 1775.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR: In compliance to the orders of Congress, as well as your recommendation, I enclose the proceedings of our Committee meeting on the New-Hampshire Grants upon due notice to the Towns in general, all which is humbly submitted to your wisdom, not doubting but the warrants will issue agreeable to our wishes. We are your most obedient.

In behalf of the Committee:

NATHAN CLARK, Chairman.

To the Honourable General Schuyler.

At a meeting of the Committees of the several Townships on the New-Hampshire Grants, west of the Range of Green-Mountains, convened at the house of Mr. Cephas Kents, Innholder in the Township of Dorset, July 27th, 1775. Voted as follows, viz:

First. Chose Mr. Nathan Clark Chairman.

Secondly. Chose John Fassett Clerk.

Thirdly. The motion being made and seconded, whether this Convention shall prosecute in choosing Field and other officers according to the Provincial Congress’s and your Honour’s directions?

Passed in the affirmative.

Then proceeded as follows:

Fourthly. Chose Mr. Seth Warner Lieutenant-Colonel for the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, by a majority of forty-one to five.

Fifthly. Chose Mr. Samuel Safford Major for said Regiment, by a majority of twenty-eight to seventeen.

Then proceeded and chose seven Captains, and fourteen Lieutenants, by a great majority, namely:

Captains: Weight Hopkins, Oliver Potter, John Grant, William Fitch, Gideon Brownson, Micah Vail, Heman Allen.

First Lieutenants: John Fassett, Ebenezer Allen, Barnabas Barnam, Jille Bleaksley, Ira Allen, Gideon Warren, David Galusha.

Second Lieutenants: Johan Noble, James Claghorn, John Chipman, Nathan Smith, Jesse Sawyer, Joshua Stanton, Philo Hard.

NATHAN CLARK, Chairman.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO NATHAN CLARK.

Head-Quarters, Ticonderoga, July 31, 1775.

SIR: Your letter, dated Dorset, 28th July, 1775, has been delivered me by Captain Fitch, together with the votes that were enclosed.

The choice of the Captains and Lieutenants being left unconditional to the people, those chosen will receive the warrants as soon as they come to my hands, and the levying of the men may not be retarded. You will signify to them that I hereby empower them immediately to proceed to that business, without waiting for the warrants.

And in order to prevent any confusion that may take place, the Captains and Lieutenants must immediately signify to me in writing, that they accept, or decline the offices to which they have been elected.

The votes I shall immediately transmit to Congress, that they may approve of the Field Officers, or appoint others out of your body, as they may think proper.

I am, Sir, your humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

To Mr. Nathan Clark, Chairman, &c.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Ticonderoga, July 31, 1775.

SIR: At ten this morning was honoured with your favour of twenty-fourth instant. Any person acquainted with the situation of this Country, the importance of having the command of Canada, the salutary consequences that must necessarily flow from having it in our power to command respect from the savages, must, without hesitation, agree, that no time ought to be lost in attempting to gain possession of the Province of Quebeck; and although hitherto we have had every prospect that could promise success to the enterprise, yet such is unfortunately our situation, that we are not in a capacity to move. We have neither craft to transport a body of men, nor provisions. The former I hope soon to be supplied with, as I have a number of carpenters at work in building boats. The latter, must be sent me from Albany; but comes so amazingly slow, that we have not above ten days’ flour for the few Troops here. This scarcity has obliged me to order the men arrived at Albany from New-York to encamp there, to prevent their starving here.

I find by the returns of the Commissaries, that twenty thousand rations were expended so early as the seventh instant, beyond the allowance. I hope, however, that we shall get ready in time to effect so good a work, if the disposition of the Canadians continues friendly to us. The Troops here sicken very fast for want of proper hospitals. We are under the disagreeable necessity of leaving the sick with the well.

If the Lexington affair caused so much emotion in England, I hope the last battle will increase them, so as to bring about a revolution of some kind in our favour; and the Minister’s confidence in the defection of New-York vanishing, they may be induced to give up their odious claims, and pursue measures tending to a reconciliation, instead of the nefarious and hostile ones they had adopted.

I am, Sir, your Honour’s most obedient humble servant,

PH. SCHUYLER.

Hon. Jonathan Trumbull.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Ticonderoga, July 31, 1775.

DEAR GENERAL: Since my last I have been most assiduously employed in preparing materials for building boats to convey me across the lake. The progress has hitherto been slow, as with few hands I had all the timber to cut, mills to repair to saw the plank, and my draught cattle extremely weak for want of feed, the drought having scorched up every kind of herbage. I have now one boat on the stocks which I hope will carry near three hundred men; another is putting up to-day. Provisions of the bread kind are scarce with me, and therefore I have not dared to order up a thousand men that are at Albany, lest we should starve here.

I have had no intelligence from Canada since my last to you. Major Brown has been gone nine days, and I expect him back, if all is well, by Saturday next, August 2.

I have not had a return from General Wooster since my arrival. I am therefore under the necessity of making you a return of the Troops here only.

Enclose your Excellency a copy of two affidavits made by persons from Canada. I have transmitted other copies to the Congress.

I am extremely anxious to hear from your part of the world. Reports prevail that a body of Troops have left Boston, and are gone to Canada. If so, I fear we shall not be able to penetrate into Canada, or even attack St. John’s with success, though at all events I am ordered to go there.

I am your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

To His Excellency General Washington, &c. &c.

P. S. I wish I could make you a regular return even of the Troops at this place and Crown Point, but I have not yet got the people to be regular in any thing, and therefore beg you to dispense with the following statement: Fit for duty, 1 Colonel, 3 Majors, 9 Captains, 1 Captain-Lieutenant, 21 Subalterns, 34 Sergeants, 18 Drums and