This certifies that the above gentlemen were elected agreeable to the abovementioned Resolves.

Members of Committee appointed to attend the Election.

WALTER LIVINGSTON TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Albany, August 26, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: I am much obliged to you for the early information you have given me of General Schuyler’s complaint to you, and should have been much pleased had you pointed out those particular articles which the General writes you he is still in want of, and which have been ordered by Congress; then I could immediately have informed you when those articles came to this place. Mr. P. T. Curtenius can best inform the Congress when they were sent from New-York. I shall order Mr. Phelps to make out a return for Congress of all such stores as have been received since the last of July. I can assure the Congress that no stores which they have sent to this place, since I have been in office, have been delayed here, and that I am persuaded they were sent from Fort George as expeditiously as the few boats on that lake could transport them, so as not to delay sending over a necessary supply of provisions. Oakum was much wanted at Ticonderoga; that only came the 10th instant, and was forwarded the next day; it should have been sent the same day, but many of the hogsheads were old and broken, and could not bear carting. I am, with due respect, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant,

WALTER LIVINGSTON, Deputy Com’y Gen.

To the Provincial Congress of New-York.

COMMITTEE FOR TRYON COUNTY TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Tryon County Committee Chamber, August 26, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: According to your regulations, we have voted Field-Officers for the Battalion in our County, and enclose you hereby a return, as well of the said elected field as other officers, not doubting you will approve of the same, and send us their respective warrants, that each one may be enabled to act with granted authority, when need requires, as without that it is very difficult to rule and transact in our Country and County in particular. We have already requested for your prescriptions in civil and military affairs, as especially the prosecution of civil laws in our County is almost entirely stopped, having got but one Justice of our whole Court left, who signed the Association freely, besides our Delegate, John Marlatt, Esq. For a cautiousness in need we agreed to some clauses in the interim, a copy of which we also here enclose for your approbation, if you find proper; but, notwithstanding, we repeat our requests that you will please to provide us with your legal rules for cases of debts, trespasses, &c., as speedily as possible. In regard to our present Delegate at your Board, John Marlatt, Esq., if no urgent necessity requireth his longer stay at your conventions, we humbly solicit for his relief, to diminish our County expenses, the accruing of which, without want, we must really avoid, to satisfy the desires of our people. Please also to remember our want of powder, as a most necessary article of provision for our frontier place. We admitted four newly elected Members to the Committee of Palatine District, as per the enclosure will appear.

We remain, with much esteem, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servants. By order of the Committee:

NICHOLAS HERCHKEIMER, Chairman.

P. S. We must annex yet that we find urgent reason to represent to you the troublesome and almost riotous behaviour of a person in Palatine District named Charles Gordon, who has resided but a short time in our County and the District aforesaid; he was a leader of a small party in his neighbourhood to vote a new Committee for said Palatine District. We had him before us, where he boldly, in company with three of his neighbours, insisted upon their proceedings to be legal, alleging for their authority a certain advertisement of our former Chairman, Captain Christopher P. Yates, now absent and under the command of Major-General Schuyler, at Ticonderoga. This advertisement, on inquiry, was found and proved illegal, having been performed and put on arbitrarily, without consult and consent of the old chosen Committee, or a major part of them. We would use easy ways to prevent further commotions with the said Gordon; but he, depending upon his artificial tongue and eloquence, wherewith he induceth a good many ignorant on his side, would not cede, but striveth rather daily yet to engage people for his opinion, promising them to get the glorious victory against the old Committee of said District, to the contempt of the whole County Committee. According to intelligence we had this day, he endeavours to collect subscriptions of ignorant people, as well as of such being of a like temper with him, to his scheme, (planned and intended for continuing commotions and disturbances,) whereby a breach of union among us, formerly enjoyed, must be feared.

RETURN OF THE FIELD-OFFICERS, CAPTAINS, AND SUBALTERNS, IN THE COUNTY OF TRYON.

Committee Chamber, August 26, 1775.

CANAJOHARIE.—FIRST BATTALION.

Nicholas Herkheimer, Esq., Colonel; Ebenezer Cox, Lieutenant-Colonel; Robert Wells, Major; Samuel Clyde, Adjutant.

First Company: Samuel Clyde, Captain; John Campbell, Jun., First Lieutenant; James Cannon, Second Lieutenant.

Second Company: Michael Grass, Captain; Robert Campbell, First Lieutenant; Peter Bowman, Second Lieutenant.

Third Company: Peter S. Tygert, Captain; Henry Zimmerman, First Lieutenant; Benjamin Mackey, Second Lieutenant.

Fourth Company: Jacob W. Seeber, Captain; Francis Ute, First Lieutenant; Adam Libe, Second Lieutenant.

Fifth Company: Henry Diefendorff, Captain; Jacob Diefendorff, First Lieutenant; Henry Mayer, Second Lieutenant.

Sixth Company: Abraham Copeman, Captain; Yoost House, First Lieutenant; Jacobus Resner, Second Lieutenant.

Seventh Company: Renier V. Everen, Captain; Martin C. Van Alstyne, First Lieutenant; James Guinall, Second Lieutenant.

Eighth Company: Jacob Miller, Captain; Peter Summer, First Lieutenant; Matthias Brown, Second Lieutenant.

Ninth Company: Nicholas Weser, Captain; Henry Bratt, First Lieutenant.

PALATINE.—SECOND BATTALION.

Jacob Clock, Colonel; Peter Waggoner, Lieutenant-Colonel; Harmanus Van Slyck, Major; Anthony V. Fechten, Adjutant.

First Company: William Fox, Jun., Captain; John Hess, First Lieutenant; Peter Waggoner, Jun., Second Lieutenant; Matthew Wormdod, Ensign.

Second Company: Christopher P. Fox, Captain; John J. Clock, First Lieutenant; Jacob J. Clock, Second Lieutenant.

Third Company: Christopher W. Fox, Captain; Peter Laucks, First Lieutenant; Henry Miller, Second Lieutenant; Samuel V. Elten, Ensign.

Fourth Company: John Kayser, Jun., Captain; Andreas Dillenbagh, First Lieutenant; Severinus Cook, Second Lieutenant; Richard Coppernoll, Ensign.

Fifth Company: John Breadbake, Captain; John Sieley, First Lieutenant; Jacob Ekert, Second Lieutenant.

Sixth Company: Nicholas Richter, Captain; John Williams, First Lieutenant; George Smith, Second Lieutenant; John Sholl, Ensign.

Seventh Company: Christian House, Captain; John Zimmerman, First Lieutenant; John Bellinger, Jun., Second Lieutenant.

MOHAWK.—THIRD BATTALION.

Frederick Fisher, Colonel; Adam Fonda, Lieutenant-Colonel; John Bliven, Major; Robert Yates, Adjutant.

First Company: Jacob Gardinier, Captain; Abraham D. Quackenboss, First Lieutenant; William Hall, Second Lieutenant; Gideon Marlatt, Ensign.