servant, and carried off part of the goods; the nation has made an apology, and the goods are restored to the owner. We have advices, likewise, from the tribes living up the Alleghany River, about one hundred and sixty miles above this place; several of them have been at a treaty held at Niagara, and inform us that many Indians are gone to Albany, but a greater number to Caughnawaga, near Montreal, at the instigation of Guy Johnson and Carleton.

The commandant of Niagara and Johnson told them to watch our motions here very narrowly, and the red-coats and other English would fight us by ships, whilst the Indians kept picking us off on our frontier; that we could not hold out long, for want of powder, as we usually had it from Britain, and could not make any among ourselves; that he would supply them plentifully with powder, and every thing else. I can see that the Indians are very jealous, greatly divided, and at a loss how to act. General Schuyler’s success will settle the matter; but an unsuccessful attempt will determine the greatest part of the Western Indians against us; perhaps make it necessary to take possession of Niagara and Detroit.

We have reason to expect all the Indians who intend to come to us will attend next week.

I have the honour to be, with respect, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,

ADAM STEPHEN.

Colonel Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, Philadelphia.

MEETING OF THE INHABITANTS OF COW-NECK, QUEEN’S COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Great-Neck, Cow-Neck, and all such as lately belonged to the Company of Captain Stephen Thorn, in Queen’s County, being duly warned on Saturday, the 23d of September, 1775, and taking into our serious consideration our distressed and calamitous situation, and being fully convinced, of our total inability to pursue proper measures for our common safety, while we in all cases are considered as a part of the Township of Hempstead, and being conscious that self-preservation, the immutable law of nature, is indispensable, do therefore,

1st, Resolve, That during the present controversy, or so long as their general conduct is inimical to freedom, we be no farther considered as a part of the Township, than is consistent with peace, liberty, and safety. Therefore, in all matters relative to the Congressional plan, shall consider ourselves as an entire, separate, independent Beat or District.

2d, Resolved, That Mr. Daniel Kissam, Mr. Henry Stocker, Mr. William Thorn, Mr. Benjamin Sands, Mr. William Cornwell, Mr. John Cornwell, Mr. John Mitchel, Sen., Mr. John Burtiss, Mr. Simond Sands, Mr. Martin Schenck, Mr. Daniel Whitehead Kissam, Mr. Peter Onderdonck, Mr. Adrian Onderdonck, and Mr. Thomas Dodge, be a Committee for this Beat or District.

JOHN FARMER, Clerk of Meeting.

NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

[Read September 25, 1775.]

SIR: We acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 20th instant. We beg leave to inform you that the insurmountable difficulty of procuring arms has been the only reason that any of our Troops have been delayed.

Before we were enabled to purchase arms, very few remained to be purchased. No pains were spared or expedients omitted to procure arms. Only six Companies remain, who have not been forwarded. Three of those are now ready; their baggage embarked before the receipt of your letter, and they will proceed immediately: the others we hope to despatch within a week at farthest.

We are, respectfully, Sir, your most obedient servants,
By order:

JACOB BLACK WELL,

Chairman proterm.

To the Hon. John Hancock, Esq., President of the Continental Congress.

RETURN OF OFFICERS OF MINUTE-MEN, OF NEW-WINDSOR
PRECINCT, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

New-Windsor, September 23, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: These serve to inform you that Samuel Logan was duly elected Captain, James Jackson, Jr., First Lieutenant, John Moffat Second Lieutenant, and John Robinson Ensign, for the Company of Minute-Men raised in the Precinct of New-Windsor, in the presence of two of the members of this Committee, agreeable to a resolve of the Continental and Provincial Congresses.

By order of the Committee:

SAMUEL BUEWSTER, Chairman.

To Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., President of the Provincial Congress.

RETURN OF OFFICERS OF MILITIA COMPANY IN NEW-WINDSOR DISTRICT, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

New-Windsor, September 23, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: These are to certify, that John Nicoll, Esq., was duly elected Captain, Francis Mandivile First Lieutenant, Hezekiah White Second Lieutenant, and Leonard D. Nicoll Ensign, for the Company of Militia in the District of New-Windsor, lately commanded by William Ellison, in the Second Regiment for Ulster County, in the presence of two of the members of this Committee, agreeable to a resolve of the Continental and Provincial Congresses.

By order of the Committee:

SAMUEL BREWSTER, Chairman.

To Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., President of the Provincial Congress.

GENERAL WOOSTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

[Read September 25, 1775.]

Camp at Harlem, September 23, 1775.

SIR: Your favour of the 20th instant I have just received, and shall with the greatest expedition proceed with the Troops under my command to Albany, and there wait General Schuyler’s orders, according to direction of Congress. I am, Sir, in haste, your most obedient humble servant,

DAVID WOOSTER.

To the Hon. John Hancock, President of Congress.

JOSEPH TRUMBULL TO ELIPHALET DYER.

Camp at Cambridge, September 23, 1775.

HONOURED SIR: I wrote you by Mr. Tracy, the bearer of this, about two hours ago; since that I have received yours per post, of the 14th instant, but not one word about money. A Commissary, with twenty thousand gaping mouths open full upon him, and nothing to stop them with, must depend on being devoured himself. And over and above all, this same Mr. Tracy has advanced, in cash, out of his own pocket, to furnish out the expedition under Col. Arnold, seven hundred Pounds, lawful money, and is now here, on his way to Philadelphia, on business of importance, and depended, as every reasonable man might and ought, that the Continental Commissary could repay him such a trifling sum. On this his journey depended; he now, to his surprise, finds a Paymaster, a Commissary, a Quartermaster, nominal nonentities; all of them not able to advance one shilling—not able to repay borrowed money; not one of them, the General, or any other person here, have power to draw on Philadelphia, which might serve him as well. This is all truly to be wondered at, and truly shocking. I wish you by some way or means, some how or other, to procure him five hundred Pounds, lawful money, that he may not suffer too much, in going in advance in support of the common cause. He wants the money in Philadelphia; and if we, any of us, had power to draw, we should certainly do it. It certainly ought to be done, though we have not the power. If it is done, it shall account against me, taking his receipt therefor. I must entreat you to exert yourself in this unhappy case, and to relieve me of the additional trouble, to the unavoidable ones of my office, of having my heart dunned out, and be for weeks unable to pay for a bushel of potatoes. I wish the accursed cause of this difficulty no worse punishment than to be put in my situation for ten days past.