CAPTAIN LAMB TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

New-York, August 22, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: As a considerable uneasiness has arisen in the Company which you have honoured me with the command of, in regard to their pay not yet being ascertained, and as it is customary in every country for the Artillery to have higher wages than the Companies of Foot, on account of their duty being more severe, I shall be extremely happy if your honourable Board will condescend to take the matter into your immediate consideration, and make such provision for paying them as will enable me to proceed with the men I have enlisted, to join General Schuyler, at Ticonderoga, without delay. Should your Honours think it expedient to adopt the arrangement of Rhode-Island, I must beg leave to point out a mistake or two, which, I conceive, has arisen from inadvertence. The first is in regard to the pay of the Second Lieutenant and Lieutenant fireworker, which, by the above mentioned arrangement, is not equal to the Lieutenants in the Foot Companies. The second is, they have rated the Bombardiers higher than the Sergeants, which is an impropriety; but this appears to me to have been owing to a mistake in copying. I have nothing to add, and am, with the greatest respect,

Gentlemen, your most humble servant,

JOHN LAMB.

To the Honourable Provincial Congress for the Colony of New-York.

SUFFOLK COUNTY (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

Suffolk County, August 22, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The Committee of this County are now met, to give proper directions for taking the stock from Gardiner’s and Plumb Islands, according to your direction of the 18th instant. It is with the greatest concern that we find the troops at the east end of the island are ordered away, whereby we shall be left defenceless. General Wooster was prevailed on before the receipt of your letter to tarry with his troops a few days. He is now present with us, and lets us know that he proposes to depart to-morrow. There are now three cutters at the east end of the island cruizing, and we must beg leave to inform you that the stock on Montauk, Shelter Island and Oyster-pond Point, will be in the utmost danger of falling into the hands of the enemy; besides the constant alarms and expense the inhabitants of this part of the county will be exposed to, unless your honourable House will take our situation under your consideration, and allow us at least such a number of men as may be sufficient to secure those parts from the depredations of the enemy. The Companies raised here, we presume, will not disobey your orders; but we pray you to consider how destitute we shall be left, when our men are gone; our arms put into their hands and carried from us. With the advice of General Wooster, we have continued to desire the Captains not to march until we can send an express to you to let us know whether we can have any hopes of relief; and further, we think we cannot at present get off the stock without a sufficient guard upon the island. General Wooster informs us that he had advice from Governour Trumbull to return to New-York, before he received your letter; and we cannot think it could be the design of the Continental Congress, that this County should be left in this situation. Colonel Gardiner, of Plumb Island, says that Colonel Abijah Willard, in the Ministerial fleet, informed him that they should come again and would bring a sufficient force to take the stock from Long-Island.

We are, Gentlemen, your most obedient and humble servants. By order:

WM. SMITH, Chairman.

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

NEWBURGH COMMITTEE TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Newburgh, August 22, 1775.

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN: Agreeable to your directions of the 9th inst., the Militia Company of the Southeast District of Newburgh, assembled on the 17th inst., at the house of Colonel Jonathan Hasbrouck, and chose by plurality of voices of the soldiers of said District, the following gentlemen for their Militia Officers: Samuel Clark, Captain; Benjamin Smith, First Lieutenant; James Den-ton, Sen., Second Lieutenant; Martin Wygant, Ensign.

We are, Gentlemen, your very humble servants,

NEW-MARLBOROUGH COMMITTEE TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

New-Marlborough, August 22, 1775.

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN: Agreeable to your order of the last, the Militia Company of the Precinct of New-Marlborough, being the Northeast District of said Precinct, assembled at the house of Zephaniah Woolsey in said District, on the 19th of this instant, and made choice of the following Officers, living in said District, for the Officers of the Militia, by plurality of the voices of the soldiers of the said Company, to wit: Mr. Jacob Wood, Captain; Mr. Jeremiah Mackey, First Lieutenant; Mr. Nathaniel Godspeed, Second Lieutenant; and Mr. John Knowlton, Ensign.

We are, with the utmost esteem, your very humble servants,

To Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., President of the Provincial Congress, now sitting in New-York.

GENERAL HOWE TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Charlestown Camp, August 22, 1775.

SIR: The men under your command having repeatedly fired upon the Officers of His Majesty’s Troops, before they were returned to the outworks of this Camp, from parleys, that have been brought on by your desire:

I am to request that all further intercourse between the two Camps be at an end, your own letters excepted, which will be received, if you are pleased to send them by a drummer.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

W. HOWE.

George Washington, Esq., Cambridge.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO GENERAL HOWE.

Camp at Cambridge, August 23, 1775.

SIR: I flatter myself you have been misinformed as to the conduct of the men under my command, complained of in yours of yesterday. It is what I should highly disapprove and condemn.

I have not the least objection to put a stop between the two Camps, either totally or partially. It obtained through the pressing solicitations of persons cruelly separated from their friends and connexions, and I understand was mutually convenient.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

A PROCLAMATION, BY THE KING, FOR SUPPRESSING REBELLION AND SEDITION.

GEORGE R.

Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us: And whereas, there is reason to apprehend that such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons within this Realm: To the end therefore, that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal, we have thought