great pleasure, readily comply with, was it in our power; but the scarcity of all kinds of arms in this County in such that we are convinced they are neither to be borrowed nor bought, were we empowered to purchase them.

As this is the condition Captain Robson's company is in, and it is impossible for us to supply their wants, we have thought it incumbent on us, immediately to lay the matter before your Honours, in order that you may give such orders as you may think proper on this occasion. We believe Captain Robson and his company are ready and willing to march, if they can be supplied with arms, and any service that is in our power upon this, or any other occasion, we shall also be ready, with great cheerfulness, to perform.

We are, with great respect, gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servants.

Signed by order of the Committee of Observation for Dorchester County.

JAMES MURRAY, Chairman.

To the Honourable the Council of Safety, of Maryland.

QUEEN-ANNE (MARYLAND) COMPANY OF MILITIA TO COLONEL ROBERT TYLER.

SIR: At the same time that we regard the loss of you as our chief, it affords us infinite pleasure that you are appointed Colonel to our battalion, to which truly honourable and exalted station we beg leave most sincerely to congratulate you.

Prompted by gratitude, we cannot omit this opportunity to express our thanks for your uniform, steady, and manly opposition against every attempt of tyranny and usurpation, from whatever quarter, to destroy the constitutional rights and privileges of the subject; you having early in life distinguished yourself as a bold and forward leader of opposition, and a most daring champion in the publick cause, gained so much the esteem and confidence of the publick that you were elected a Burgess for this County, since which you have eminently appeared an independent agent for the people, and a faithful trustee of that sacred charge committed to a Representative by his constituents. Your conduct last war, a war truly national, demands the acknowledgments of all good men and friends to America; for at a time when others were spending their time in idle dissipation, and wallowing in sensuality and excess of ease, though blest with so large a fortune that you might have staid at home and basked, in the sunshine of affluence, you entered a volunteer in the service of your country, and generously took up arms and risked your life in a wilderness against cruel Savages, in defence of our glorious Constitution, and to the relief of the poor distressed frontier inhabitants.

Being fully persuaded, that without the most perfect harmony and union among ourselves, the great events which have happened in our favour, will not have those permanent good consequences so much wished for, be assured of our most earnest desire, that all party heats, dissensions, and broils, may be finally abolished from among us; our salvation most clearly depends upon it; at a time when we are all afloat in the same bottom, and must inevitably sink or swim together, surely we ought now, more particularly, above all things, to love one another. May we all heartily unite, hand in hand, against the common enemy, (who would rejoice to see divisions among us,) is the prayer of yours, &c.

It is agreed that this Address be published.

COLONEL TYLER'S ANSWER.

To the Gentlemen, Officers, and Soldiers, belonging to the QUEEN-ANNE Company of Militia:

GENTLEMEN: Be pleased to accept my best thanks for your very neighbourly and most friendly congratulatory address, on my being raised to so honourable a station as that of Lieutenant-Colonel in the battalion to which you belong. You have expressed your approbation of my promotion in terms that do me much honour. We are all of us, at this time, unhappily forced into a most unnatural civil war, by the vile machinations of a despotick Minister, whose aim is to exchange the laws and maxims of our happy Constitution for the exercise of tyranny and arbitrary power over us, learned from the most despotick Courts of Europe. I have, therefore, drawn my sword with you in defence of invaded liberty, our very best inheritance; and you may be assured in such a contest, I will prefer even death itself to an unmanly, base submission. May the Great God of Heaven stretch forth his arm to us in the day of so hard a trial, is the prayer of,

Gentlemen, your much obliged, faithful servant,

ROBERT TYLER.

P. S. You may be assured that I will, as you have desired, use my best endeavours to cultivate harmony and a good understanding between our officers and brother soldiers, as the only sure way to save us from destruction; and as to all matters that have been unwarily thrown out to create disturbance, I am for burying them in oblivion. As your address is to be published, request you will publish my answer. I am, &.c.,

R. T.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO JOHN McKESSON.

Albany, February 1, 1776.

SIR: Mr. Hancock had already transmitted me like copies of the resolutions of Congress, as were enclosed in yours of the 25th ultimo, which I received yesterday.

I have more reasons than one for wishing that no commissions may be sent to me from the Committee of Safety, to be delivered to the officers they may please to name. The Colonel of the regiment will be the proper person to distribute them.

I am, sir, your humble servant,

PHILIP SCHUYLER.

To John McKesson, Esq., Secretary to the Provincial Convention of New-York.

THOMAS YOUNGS TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Sag-Harbour, February 1, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Enclosed, we send you the most correct map of the east end of Long-Island, and the islands adjacent, we were able to take at this difficult season. The bearings and distances of the points of land are chiefly taken by the compass; the soundings and shoals taken from the most experienced coasters we have here. The ice prevented us from taking them ourselves.

I am, gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servant.

By order of the Committee:

THOMAS YOUNGS, Chairman.

To the Honourable Provincial Congress.

GENERAL SCHUYLER TO PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS.

Albany, 10 o'clock, A. M., February 1, 1776.

SIR: Just now Colonel Easton arrived from Montreal with the prisoners mentioned in the enclosed list; they immediately go to Lebanon.

General Wooster, in a letter of the 20th ultimo, says:

'I have just received intelligence from our army before Quebeck; they still continue the blockade with spirit, yet are greatly distressed for want of men, being alarmed almost every night, and having so few men, if not assisted in a little time, good as they are (and men never behaved better) they must be worn out. I have sent them a reinforcement of a hundred and twenty, who, I expect, will arrive there to-morrow, and another party of seventy will set off from this place this morning.

"What our people at Quebeck will do, or what any of us can do for want of money, God only knows. Money we must have, or give up every thing. Every engine is set at work to discredit us with the people of the country. Our friends are already drained. If the Lakes are not so taken as to render it prudent to venture the military chest across, cannot some trusty person come on with a thousand or two pounds for present use, and in the meantime we shall make every shift to promote the service.

"I mentioned in my last, that cannon, mortars, and ammunition might be wanted. Should be glad of your thoughts upon the subject, and to know what quantity of powder can be forwarded, and how many cannon and mor-