His Majesty by the Hon. Robert Fulke Greeville, one of their Representatives in Parliament.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

May it please your Majesty:

We, your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Burgesses, and Inhabitants of the Borough of Warwick, unbiased by party, unawed by faction, and not blinded by false patriotism, but actuated by a dutiful and sincere regard for your Majesty’s person, arising from the clearest conviction of your Majesty’s earnest wishes and endeavours to promote the prosperity of Great Britain, humbly presume to address your Majesty, with hearts replete with gratitude for the innumerable blessings which, through Providence, and the wisdom and mildness of your Majesty’s Government, we now enjoy.

It is with the utmost concern we see the acts of the British Legislature contemned and opposed by many of your Majesty’s subjects in North-America, through the incitement and misrepresentation of artful, designing, and seditious men, both at home and abroad; who, under the specious pretext of preserving the liberty of the people, are aiming at a total subversion of all law and good government, and consequently introducing the worst of tyrannies.

And we cannot but sincerely lament that they have so far succeeded, under the cloak of mock patriotism, as to incite numbers of your Majesty’s American subjects to be guilty of open rebellion.

We therefore think we should but ill deserve the appellation of Englishmen, if we refrained from declaring, to our Sovereign and to the world, our utter abhorrence of the authors and abetters of such outrageous and traitorous proceedings.

And, at this alarming crisis, we consider ourselves obliged, as loyal subjects, and real friends to the true interest of Great Britain and its inestimable Constitution, to assure your Majesty, that, as the lenient treatment of your Majesty’s infatuated and misled subjects in America has been insufficient to induce and prevail on them to return to their reason and allegiance, we apprehend compulsory and effectual methods are not only justifiable in law and conscience, but absolutely expedient to be exerted with vigour and resolution.

And we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that we will, with alacrity and spirit, support, to the utmost of our ability, such measures as your Majesty shall think proper to pursue for enforcing and maintaining obedience to the laws in every part of your Majesty’s Dominions; entirely confiding in your Majesty’s goodness, because we are fully satisfied that, upon this important occasion, every plan which your Majesty shall adopt will be so judiciously concerted, and wisely directed, that it will preserve the freedom of the Constitution inviolate, and advance the honour and prosperity of this Kingdom.

Given under our hands, and the common seal of the Borough of Warwick, this twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

General Post-Office, London, September 28, 1775.

A mail will be despatched from hence on Wednesday next, for New-York, and also one for Charlestown; after which, there will be no regular conveyance for Letters from this office to North-America; but whenever a packet may be despatched to any part of the Continent, proper notice will be given.

HENRY WISNER TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Philadelphia, September 28, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: By the first safe opportunity I send you the thirty-two articles of agreement for the due regulation and government of the Associators in the Colony of Pennsylvania.

I beg the favour of you to let me know, as quick as possible, whether the saltpetre has arrived from Connecticut, that your Committee of Safety informed me of a few days ago, when last in Town; also, if any accounts from that which was expected another way. I want to send to the workmen as quick as possible, but dare not send till I can get some saltpetre, at least a few hundred weight.

I am, Gentlemen, your assured friend and very humble servant,

HENRY WISNER.

To John Haring and John McKesson, Esquires.

Philadelphia, September 30, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Enclosed I send you the military articles delivered out by the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Pennsylvania. After I bad wrote the enclosed letter, I found that the Associators generally refused signing, and that they had printed their reasons for so doing. I then thought best to wait till I could send both together, which I hope may apologize for my not sending sooner. It is some matter of doubt with me, whether our people will be prevailed on to sign them. I rather think they will not. However, you will be the best judges of that, and the propriety of so doing, if it may be done.

I beg you to send me an answer to that part of the enclosed letter that relates to saltpetre, as quick as possible. Direct my letters to the care of William Will, in the corner of Second and Arch Streets. If you deliver it to Henry Will, Pewterer, in New-York, he will send it, as he very frequently corresponds with his brother.

I am, Gentlemen, your humble servant,

HENRY WISNER.

GENERAL WOOSTER TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.

Harlem, September 28, 1775.

SIR: This just serves to inform your Excellency that I returned to this place, from Long-Island, immediately upon the receipt of your favour of the 2d instant, and that, in pursuance of an order from the Continental Congress, 1 shall this afternoon embark, with all the Troops under my command, for Albany, there to wait the orders of General Schuyler.

I am, Sir, in haste, your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant

DAVID WOOSTER.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE.

In the Committee of the County of Westchester, held at Lieutenant Bull’s, at the White Plains, September 28, 1775:

Resolved, That notice be given in one of the publick newspapers of this Colony, that any of the inhabitants of Westchester County, who go to the Fort, now building at Martelaer’s Rock, without a certificate from the Chairman, or two of the Committee of said County, of their being friends to the liberty of America, will be apprehended by the persons employed in building the Fort.

Extract from the Minutes:

GILBERT DRAKE, Chairman.

GENERAL SCHITYLER TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

[Read October 3, 1775.]

Ticonderoga, September 28, 1775.

SIR: I am this moment honoured with your favour of the 20th instant. The honourable Congress have my warmest acknowledgments, and they may rest assured that nothing on my part shall be wanting to ensure that success they so earnestly wish, and I hope soon to congratulate them on it. Whilst I deprecate the untimely misfortune which prevents me from sharing in the immediate glory, it was perhaps inflicted, in such a critical hour, to serve the common cause; for if I had not arrived here, even on the very day I did, as sure as God lives the Army would have starved. The letters I have been obliged to write to several officers, I have been under the necessity of couching in terms that I should be ashamed of, did not necessity apologize for me. In twenty-two days, five hundred and thirty-eight barrels of provisions only had been sent across Lake George, and two hundred and sixty men, which take as many batteaus as would have carried two hundred barrels more, and not an ounce had been sent from this place, except twenty days’ allowance for about two hundred and thirty men, who had left this after me, and before my return here. In six days, since my arrival, five hundred and forty-two barrels have been brought over Lake George, and two hundred men with only the same boats, and have sent to the Army three batteaus, with rum and artillery stores, two hundred and