County of CARMARTHEN, whose names are hereunto subscribed.

When the inhabitants of your Majesty’s Colonies in America, forgetful of the allegiance they owe your Majesty and this Country, (from whence they derive their origin,) for the protection and nourishment they have uniformly sought and effectually received since their first emigration from this their Parent Country, are in a state of open rebellion, denying all obedience to your Majesty’s Government and the supreme Legislature of this Country:

When, complaining of infringement of their chartered rights by the Legislature of Great Britain, they themselves, in open violation of those very charters, have dissolved all Government and lawful authority, and assembling themselves in Congresses and Provincial Meetings, to their Constitution unknown, have encouraged the utmost disloyalty and rebellious practices in your Majesty’s subjects there, and by the most severe terrours and punishments have prevented the lawful Governours and officers of justice from exercising the duties of their respective stations:

When the same unlawful Congress, by their self-assumed authority, with a view to the destruction of the commerce, credit, power, and very being of this Country, have recommended and been able to enforce non-exportation and non-importation agreements, in open defiance to the laws of trade, established and admitted for ages between Great Britain and the Colonies in America, and by long experience found highly advantageous to both Countries:

When the same rebellious assemblies, by specious addresses to the people of Great Britain and Ireland, and other parts of your Majesty’s Dominions, are attempting to seduce your Majesty’s loyal subjects from their duty to your Majesty and their Country, and to give countenance and support to the violent and unconstitutional proceedings now carrying on in America:

At a crisis like this, perhaps as important as is to be found in the British annals, we think we owe it to your Majesty, of whose just, mild, and gracious Government we have the fullest experience, we owe it to our Country, we owe it to ourselves, to take this opportunity of expressing our most hearty abhorrence and detestation of these undutiful and traitorous practices of your Majesty’s subjects in America, and of assuring your Majesty, that we are ready and willing with our lives and fortunes to give your Majesty every effectual support and assistance in our power, for vindicating the rights of Great Britain against all its open and secret enemies whatsoever.

ADDRESS OF THE OFFICERS OF THE DEVONSHIRE MILITIA.

Address of the Officers of the Northern Regiment of the Militia of Devonshire, transmitted to the Earl of Rochford, one of His Majesty’s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.

To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.

The humble Address of the Officers of the Northern Regiment of the DEVONSHIREMilitia.

We, your Majesty’s most loyal and dutiful subjects, the Officers of the Northern Regiment of the Devonshire Militia, humbly beg leave to approach your royal presence, to assure your Majesty of our unfeigned duty and allegiance.

With sorrow and concern we saw the first sparks of dissension arise between Great Britain and her dependant Colonies; with the greatest, with the utmost detestation and abhorrence, we now not only see these sparks break out into the fiercest flames of anarchy and rebellion, but to our surprise and astonishment we behold those flames supplied with fresh fuel, and the enkindled blaze fomented by many self-interested, discontented, and ill-disposed persons, even in this Kingdom, who justify and approve the daring rebellious measures of the Colonies against the legislative authority of this Country.

At this alarming crisis, both as faithful subjects, and as soldiers most firmly attached to your Majesty’s most illustrious family and the happy Constitution of our Country, we think it our indispensable duty to assure our most gracious Sovereign, in the most solemn manner, that we are resolved and ready, as far as the laws of this realm will admit, to stand by your Majesty against all rebellious attempts whatsoever; to defend your sacred person, and to support our present Constitution, at the hazard of our lives, and at the expense of our fortunes.

Dated at our meeting at Bideford, in the said County of Devon, the twenty-first day of October, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.

NEW-JERSEY CONGRESS TO CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.
[Read October 23, 1775.]

In Provincial Congress, Trenton, October 21, 1775.

SIR: Since the resolution of the Continental Congress, for raising two Battalions in this Colony, were communicated to us, great numbers of gentlemen have applied for commissions or warrants to recruit; but this Congress, expecting hourly to hear from you on the subject of appointing the Field-Officers, have as yet forbore either to grant commissions or issue warrants, and therefore are very anxious to have your resolution on the subject of our letter of the 13th instant.

This Congress desire me to assure you, that from every appearance the Battalions will speedily be completed, if your honourable House shall think proper to comply with the purport of our letter of the 13th instant.

To expedite this important service, I am directed to request the favour of you, Sir, to transmit to us the resolutions of the Continental Congress, by the bearer, Thomas Potts, Esq., one of our members.

By order of the Congress: Your most humble servant,

SAMUEL TUCKER, President.

Honourable John Hancock, Esq.

P. S. If the Continental Congress have yet considered the subject of our letter of the 14th instant, we likewise request an answer thereto by Mr. Potts.

MILITIA OFFICERS OF WEST-FARMS AND MANOR OF FORD-HAM, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

It being determined by a Committee of the County of Westchester, that the abovesaid places should be one distinct Beat or District, we, the subscribers, being appointed a Committee of Inspection to preside at the election for Officers of the Militia for said Beat, do most humbly represent to the honourable the Provincial Congress for the Province of New-York, that they have proceeded to the choice of Officers, in conformity to the orders of the said honourable Provincial Congress, when the underwritten persons were unanimously chosen.

Captain, Nicholas Berrian; First Lieutenant, Gilbert Taylor; Second Lieutenant, Daniel Devoe, Jun.; Ensign, Benjamin Valentine.

THOMAS HUNT,
ABRAHAM LEGGETT,

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

Ticonderoga, October 21, 1775.

SIR: At four o’clock, this afternoon, I had the honour to receive your letter of the 12th instant. I should have been extremely happy if Congress had been in sentiment with me on the necessity of a delegation from that respectable body to this place—a necessity which to me appears to be absolute.

A General, Sir, who commands an Army in which discipline and subordination are established and prevail, and every corps of which considers itself under his immediate command, can devote the greatest proportion of his time uninterruptedly to weigh every measure that it may be necessary