OFFICERS OF LIGHT-HORSE IN BROOKLYN, KING’S COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

At a meeting of the Company of Light-Horse for Brooklyn, in King’s County, on Friday, the 15th of September, 1775, at Mr. Adolph Waldron’s, Innholder at Brooklyn Ferry, present: Wm. Boerum, Rem A. Remsen, Adolph Waldron, Isaac J. Sebring, David Titus, George Powers, Samuel Etherington, Jacob Sebring, Jun., Jacob Kemper, John Hicks, John Reade, John Guest, William Chardavoyne, Robert Galbraith, Joseph Smith, Nicholas Van Dam, William Everit, Thomas Everit, Thomas Hazard.

Adolph Waldron, Captain; Rem A. Remsen, First Lieutenant; William Boerum, Second Lieutenant; Thos. Everit, Cornet; Jacob Sebring, Jun., Quartermaster.

ADOLPH WALDRON.
ISAAC J. SEBRING, Clerk.

MILITIA OFFICERS OF THE FIRST REGIMENT, THIRD COMPANY, SOUTHOLD, SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

A Return of the Officers of the Militia chosen at Southold, Mr. William Smith and Thomas Fanning, two of the Committee present for that purpose, and conformable to an act of the Provincial Congress of New-York, and were chosen duly for the Third Company:

Matthew Rose, Captain; Hugh Smith, First Lieutenant; David Fanning, Second Lieutenant; John Smith, Ensign.

September 4, 1775.

MILITIA OFFICERS OF THE FIRST COMPANY OF BROOKHAVEN. SUFFOLK COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

A Return of the Officers of the Militia chosen at Brook-haven, Nath’l Roe, Jun., Richard Woodhull, and Samuel Thompson, present for that purpose, and conformable to the recommendation of the Provincial Congress:

Samuel Thompson, Captain; Abraham Woodhull, First Lieutenant; Isaac Davis, Second Lieutenant: Daniel Satterly, Ensign.

NATHANIEL ROE,
RICHARD WOODHULL,
SAMUEL THOMPSON.

September 4, 1775.

OFFICERS ELECTED IN THE SECOND REGIMENT OF ULSTER COUNTY MILITIA.

ULSTER COUNTY, ss.

To the Honourable the Provincial Congress of the Province of NEW-YORK, or in their absence to the Committee of Safety for said Province, or their Secretary, greeting:

GENTLEMEN: These are to certify that on Saturday, the fourth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, personally appeared before us, Colonel James McClaghry, Nathan Smith, Esq., and Samuel Sly, three of the Committee for the Precinct of New-Windsor, in the Second Regiment of Ulster County, the Company formerly commanded by the aforesaid James McClaghry, in our presence, agreeable to your votes, did then and there choose, by the majority, William Telford, of Little Britain, in the aforesaid Beat, Precinct, and Regiment, for their Captain, James Talkanter, of the aforenamed place, for their First Lieutenant, and Alexander Betty, as aforesaid, for their Second Lieutenant; and that on the twenty-second day of July last past, did likewise choose John Burnet, in the aforesaid manner, for their Ensign. We therefore, Gentlemen, agreeable to your return, pray that you will send commissions for the aforesaid persons, agreeable to our return; and by so doing you will serve your constituents and your very humble servants,

JAMES MCCLAGHRY,
NATHAN SMITH,
SAMUEL SLY.

Given under our hands, the day and year above written.

NORWALK (CONNECTICUT) COMMITTEE.

Committee Chamber, Norwalk, September 4, 1775.

Whereas the removal of persons and families into this Town, who are inimical to the liberties and constitution of these Colonies, (as the same were delineated by the late Continental Congress,) will tend to disturb the peace of this Town, and obstruct our endeavours in defence of our liberties; therefore,

Resolved, That no person or family shall be permitted to reside here, unless he or they shall produce a certificate from a Provincial or County Congress, or from the Committee of Observation of the Town or place from whence they removed, certifying that they are friends to the liberties of these Colonies, and defenders of the Association recommended by the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia, on the fifth day of September last; and that this Resolve be published in Mr. Holt’s Journal.

By order of the Committee:

JOHN CANNON, Chairman.

GENERAL WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY.

Camp at Cambridge, September 4, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Colonel Sergeant has applied to me for his commission in the Continental Army, and I have no objection to comply with his request, but his not having received one under the Legislature of this Province; but as I do not mean to confine myself to forms, if he has been considered by this Government as an officers authorized to raise a Regiment, and would have received a commission on the Provincial establishment, and you will signify this to me for my government and security, I shall make no difficulty to grant a commission to him, on the same terms as are prescribed to the other officers.

I am, Gentlemen, most respectfully, your obedient and very humble servant,               GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The Honourable James Otis, Esq., President, &c.

EXTRACT OF A SEPARATE LETTER FROM THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH TO MAJOR-GENERAL HOWE, DATED WHITEHALL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1775.

I have already, in my letter to General Gage of the 2d August, which will have been left with you upon his return to England, pointed out the different ideas which had been suggested, of the plan of operations in North-America next year, if the present unnatural rebellion should continue to be supported; but I did not think myself at liberty to go further in that letter than nakedly to state the propositions themselves, and I carefully avoided appearing to have any opinion of my own upon questions of which, both from the nature of them, and the difficulty of forming any precise judgment at such a distance, and without fuller information, it was not fit for me to decide. But I ventured to describe, in general terms, not only some of the advantages which would arise from taking post at New-York, but also the hazard of the Army’s continuing at Boston in the winter.

The intelligence and information of every day since have shown more clearly both the one and the other; and the situation of the Troops, cooped up in a Town, exposed to insult and annoyance, if not to surprise, from more places than one, deprived of the comforts and necessaries of life, wasting away by disease and desertion faster than we can recruit, and no longer either the objects of terrour or cause of distress to the rebels, is truly alarming, and demands the most serious consideration; and I am commanded by the King to say, that if no alteration for the better should have happened before this reaches you, or any unexpected advantages of carrying on the war on the side of New-England should have opened themselves, it seems not only advisable, but necessary, to abandon Boston before the winter, to dismantle Castle William, and having embarked all the stores and artillery, and afforded every means to the well-disposed inhabitants of getting safely away with their families and effects, to remove with the Troops either to New-York, or some other place to the southward, which considerations of superiour advantage, safety, and convenience, shall point out as the most proper, and where a squadron of the King’s ships may not only lie, but carry on operations with security during the winter.

The taking post in such a situation as I have described holds out a prospect of many advantages, which you will better conceive than I can suggest. But I cannot avoid mentioning one, though I am persuaded it will not escape your attention; and that is, the opportunity it may afford of employing a part of your forces, during the open part of