inform you that a commission is wanting for Deputy-Adjutant Flemming, who has proceeded upon the service; you will be pleased to furnish us with it, that it may be forwarded to him. The first commission which we received for that appointment was filled up for a gentleman whose affairs would not permit him to accept it, and it is since returned to us. We are informed that the blank commissions with which General Washington has been furnished have been made use of. General Schuyler has not been supplied with any for this department. We request you will be pleased to furnish us with four hundred.

Some time since we forwarded to the camp at Cambridge nineteen hundred and fifty-five pounds of gunpowder. We submit it to you, whether it would not be proper to replace us that quantity from Philadelphia, as we know not what demand may be for that article from General Schuyler.

We are, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servants, By order of the Committee:

ABRAHAM BRASHER.

To the Delegates of the Colony of New-York, Philadelphia.

COMMITTEE OF RUMBOUT PRECINCT, DUTCHESS COUNTY, TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Rumbout Precinct, Dutchess County, September 9, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: By request of Col. James Clinton, we have collected all the arms we could for Captains Billings and Dubois’s Companies, in the service of the Provincial Congress, in consequence of a resolve of theirs of the 8th ult., the cost whereof you have on the other side, by copy, signed by myself, as Chairman of Rumbout Precinct, Dutchess County. The original receipts and orders are in my hands, which have kept for fear of miscarrying, and have therefore sent the copies, attested by me as Chairman. When the originals are wanted, they shall be sent by a safe hand. In the mean time, the people are anxious for their moneys, and are daily calling for it; for which, as a Committee, we have bound ourselves; therefore desire you will immediately, on receipt hereof, send the sum of money the arms amount to, to myself as Chairman, or to Jacobus Swartwout, Deputy-Chairman, or to Henry Schenck, Clerk, or to Henry Godwin, Deputy-Clerk, who will give receipts to the Congress that the moneys are received, and paid to the persons of whom the arms were purchased.

I am, by order of the Committee, Gentlemen, your humble servant,

DIRCK G. B RINCKERHOFF, Chairman.

To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq., or, in recess of the Congress, to the Chairman of the Committee of Safety, New-York.

COMMITTEE OF SAFETY OF ULSTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK, TO PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

New-Paltz, September 9, 1775.

To the respectable Provincial Congress of the Colony of NEW-YORK:

GENTLEMEN: Pursuant to your recommendation of the 31st May last, the Company of Militia of New-Paltz, (then under the command of Captain Noah Eltinge, Esq.,) per order of Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh, met together in the Town of New-Paltz, on the thirteenth day of June, and did then associate and form themselves into two separate Companies, dividing at the same time that part of the New-Paltz Precinct into two distinct Districts, viz: the Southern and Northern Districts, and the line of partition to run from the west end of the three mile lots on the west bank of Hudson’s River, along the publick high road that leads from said Town to Hudson’s River, until it meets the Paltz River, then along the same up the stream to the line of the southerly side of the New-Paltz, and then along the said line northwesterly, as it runs to the Paltz Point, excepting two households or families out of the Southern District, which are added to the Northern District. Which said two Companies, so formed as aforesaid, did then also, by majority of voices, choose and elect the following gentlemen to be Officers of the respective Companies aforesaid, viz:

For the Southern District: Lewis J. Dubois, Captain; John A. Hardenbergh, First Lieutenant; Matthew Lefever, Second Lieutenant; Methusalem Dubois, Ensign.

For the Northern District: Jacob Hasbrouck, Jun., Captain; Abr’m Doran, Jun., First Lieutenant; Petrus Hasbrouck, Second Lieutenant; Samuel Bevier, Ensign.

And whereas the said Officers, by the appointment of Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh, did afterwards meet with the Field-Officers in Kingston, to give in their names, in order that a return of the said proceedings might be made to the respectable Provincial Congress of this Colony, for the purpose of obtaining commissions for the said Officers: And whereas the return of the said Officers to the said Congress, it is presumed, hath not been forwarded or laid before the Congress; wherefore the said Committee, taking this affair in consideration,

Resolved, That for the better commanding and regulating the said Companies, it is highly expedient and necessary that the said Officers should be commissioned, and it is therefore hoped that this respectable Congress will be pleased speedily to issue forth commissions for the respective Officers above named, and chosen in manner aforesaid.

By order of the Committee:

NATHANIEL DUBOIS, Chairman.

RECANTATION OF SAMUEL HOLLY, OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT.

Stamford, September 9, 1775.

Whereas I, Samuel Holly, of Stamford, have in many instances appeared unfriendly to the Continental Congress, particularly in proclaiming against that article of advertising those that do not adhere to their advice, and in labouring on the Continental Fast Day, for which I freely acknowledge myself to blame, for which I heartily ask the forgiveness of my Country, and do promise, by the solemn ties of honour, virtue, and love of my Country, that I will, for the future, yield a strict adherence to their advice, and be ready to sacrifice my interest and venture my life in the defence of my Country. I desire that the above confession may be published in the publick prints.

SAMUEL HOLLY.

JEDEDIAH HUNTINGTON TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Roxbury Camp, September 9, 1775.

HONOURED SIR: I should be glad that my Second Lieutenant, Mr. Jonathan Brewster, might succeed Lieutenant Kingsbury, and my First Sergeant, Mr. Ebenezer Perkins, have the Ensigncy in my Company. The Second Lieutenancy I could wish Mr. Simeon Huntington would accept. I want officers of a military spirit. Many are appointed who are worthy men, but very indifferent in camp. I once mentioned Mr. Newell to fill Mr. Tracy’s place in my Company; but as there will be an opening in Captain Humphrey’s Company, I think it is best, on some accounts, that if he is promoted, it should be in that Company. The appointments for my Company, which I have mentioned, I think will be for the service of the Regiment. I would not wish to have it known to any one what I say as to want of good officers. Doctor Church tells Doctor Turner there are to be Brigade Surgeons appointed by the Continental Congress, and that he will recommend Doctor Turner for one of them. If you should think proper to say any thing in the Doctor’s favour, it may be of much service to a man very valuable in his place. My love and duty to the family, &c. I remain, most affectionately,

JED. HUNTINGTON.

To Governour Trumbull.

GOVERNOUR COOKE TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Providence, September 9, 1775.

SIR: I am to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 6th instant, and to inform you that, zealous to do every thing in our power to serve the common cause of America, the Committee have determined, instead of the small armed sloop, to send the large vessel, with fifty men, upon the Bermuda enterprise, with orders to Captain Whipple to cruise ten days off Sandy-Hook, for the Packet expected from England; and if he is so fortunate as to meet her, to put the letters ashore at Southampton, and send them by express to your Excellency. She will sail, wind and Weather permitting, the beginning of the week.

There is in this Town a Mr. Du Ville, a Frenchman,