gratitude for the many blessings we have enjoyed under your Majesty’s mild and impartial Government.

Firmly persuaded that it has been the great object of your Majesty’s reign to cherish and preserve true liberty in every part of your Dominions, it is with the deepest concern that we behold our fellow-subjects in America hurried into an unnatural rebellion against their Sovereign, not only rejecting every reasonable overture of accommodation, but imperiously dictating to the Parent State, which, at the expense of its blood and treasure, hath raised, nourished, and protected them.

With equal grief, but not without indignation, we look upon a discontented faction at home, promoting and encouraging these unhappy disturbances. In this situation, we rely upon the wisdom of your Majesty and the Great Council of the Nation, under the direction of Divine Providence, to adopt such measures as shall be most consistent with the dignity of the Crown, the honour of Parliament, and the safety and welfare of the whole British Empire. And we think it an indispensable duty we owe to your Majesty, to the State, to ourselves, and to posterity, to express these our sentiments of loyalty and affection, and to make a tender of our most faithful services to support, by every means in our power, the due authority of the Legislature, and to enforce that good order and obedience to the laws so essential to Government, and so conducive to the welfare and happiness of the people.

Given under the common seal, in the Guildhall, at Shrewsbury, this sixth day of October, 1775.

WILLIAM OWEN, Mayor.
JOHN ASHBY, Town Clerk.

NEW-YORK COMMITTEE.

Friday, October 6, 1775.

The Committee met. Present: John Broome, Chairman pro tem.

Petition of Samuel Ward and thirty-nine others, received and read, praying the removal of John Taylor and James Light from their respective offices.

Ordered, That the same be laid over until the next meeting; and that the parties be both summoned to attend.

The following gentlemen were nominated as Field-Officers, viz:

Colonels: Henry Remsen, David Clarkson, William Walton.

Lieut. Colonels: Jos. Bull, James Beekman, J. Broome.

Adjutants: Stephen Rapalje, Peter P. Van Zandt, John White.

Majors: Abraham Walton, Anthony Lispenard, Anthony L. Bleecker.

Second Majors: Thomas W. Moore, Garret Abeel, Morgan Lewis.

Quartermasters: Abraham Brinckerhoff, Nicholas Quakenbos, Andrew Breasted.

NEW-YORK CONGRESS TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
[Read October 9, 1775.]

In Provincial Congress, New-York, October 6, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The enclosed packet we this hour received from Major-General Schuyler. We have also enclosed a copy of the General’s letter to this Congress. In consequence thereof, we have ordered up, under the care of Mr. Watkins, one of our members from Charlotte County, fourteen hundred weight of powder, in a convenient boat, rowed with oars. This quantity, except two hundred weight, belongs to the different Counties of the Colony, and was ordered to be delivered some weeks ago; but finding it yet in the magazines, we have, in this necessity, taken it. It is the whole that can be obtained in the Colony. We have wrote to the Committee of Albany for their aid in forwarding this necessary article with all despatch. We have communicated this intelligence to Governour Trumbull.

From the importance of General Schuyler’s requisition, and the situation of the Army to the northward, you will judge of the necessity of completing the General’s request.

Pray devise some ways and means to replace our powder with all expedition, as we may be distressed, and should not remain in this defenceless state, if it can be avoided.

Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant.
By order:

NATHL. WOODHULL, President pro tem.

To the Hon. the Continental Congress.

NEW-YORK CONGRESS TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.

In Provincial Congress, New-York, October 6, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Captain Robert Wallace, in the Brig Mary, sailed from Baltimore, in Maryland, on the 14th of September last; cleared out the 9th, and was loaded before the 10th, and passed the Capes on the 23d. She is bound for Falmouth for orders, and put in here by distress, and wants repairs. Her cargo consists of wheat, flour, and sixty casks of flaxseed. She was brought to by the Asia ship-of-war, in our harbour, who has pressed six of her men, but has promised to return them, or supply her with others in their stead.

The Captain of this brig has applied to us for leave to come into this harbour, to unload and refit; and when she is repaired, that she may be allowed to prosecute her intended voyage. From principles of humanity, we consented to his coming up to unload and repair, but shall give no further orders until we are favoured with your sentiments on the subject, as it may possibly be construed a breach of the regulations of the last Congress, relative to exportation.

We are, respectfully, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servants. By order:

NATHL. WOODHULL, President pro tem.

To the Hon. the Continental Congress.

GENERAL MONTGOMERY TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Camp near St. John’s, October 6, 1775.

SIR: The command of the Troops employed on this service having devolved on me, by the indisposition of General Schuyler, I have the honour to acquaint you, that at the request, and by the recommendation of Col, Water-bury, I have ventured to make the enclosed appointments in the Fifth Regiment of Connecticut Troops, till the pleasure of your Legislature be known.

I am, Sir, with respect, your most obedient servant,

RICHARD MONTGOMERY,
Brigadier-General Continental Army.

SAMUEL MOTT TO GOVERNOUR TRUMBULL.

Camp before St. John’s, October 6, 1775.

SIR: Ever since the 17th of last month we have laid siege to this place; it is a very difficult place to come at, as it is almost surrounded with sunken swamps and marshy ground; many small occurrences have happened during the siege, which I cannot recapitulate. The enemy, it is thought, have fired six hundred bomb-shells, besides numbers of cannon-shot, and showers of grape-shot; but we have lost but about a dozen men by them all. They played very severely on us when we were erecting our batteries. I was for three days successively where the shot and shells came and the grape-shot rattled around me like hail; but a good God has preserved me. I had several times the dirt spattered all over me by the shells and shot, but none have hitherto hit me. The extreme rainy season, and our very wet and muddy camp, make it much unhealthy. Some days ago I was ordered to go round and reconnoitre on the northwest part of the fort, where we are going to erect a gun battery, in order to make a breach and storm the place, if it can be conquered no other way, (which I