to mention this, and to enclose a list of their names; and doubt not but that their services will be duly considered by Congress, and that proper provisions will be made for them, if they are not already provided for.

We are, most respectfully, sir, your most obedient and very humble servants.

By order:

NATHANIEL WOODHULL, President.

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

In Provincial Congress, New-York, February 28, 1776.

List of Gentlemen nominated, out of which to elect Field-Officers for the four Regiments to be raised for the defence of the Colony of NEW-YORK, viz:

Colonels: Alexander McDougall, James Clinton, Rudolphus Ritzema, Peter Yates, Cornelius D. Wynkoop, Philip Cortland, John Jasper, Seth Warner.

Lieutenant-Colonels: Herman Zedtwitz, Peter Gansevoort, Jun., Barnabas Tuthill, Henry G. Livingston, Peter P. Schuyler, John Halhorn, Egbert Dumont, Gouverneur Morris.

Majors: Frederick Van Weisenfels, John Fisher, Daniel Griffin, Henry B. Livingston, Marinus Willet, Cornelius Van Dyck, John Nicholson, Joseph Benedict.

The following Officers are now in Canada:

First Regiment: Herman Zedtwitz, John Brogden, Israel Evans, William Tapp.

First Company: Frederick Van Weisenfels, Richard Platt.

Second Company: Marinus Willet, William Gilleland, (unfit,) Leonard Bleecker.

Fourth Company: William Goforth, Ranald S. McDougall.

Fifth Company: Abram Austin, John Houston.

Sixth Company: John Copp, Daniel Gano.

Seventh Company: Gershorn Mott, Benjamin Petton, Timothy Hughes.

Eighth Company: Jonathan Pearcy, Garret Van Wagener.

Ninth Company: Digby Odlum.

Tenth Company: Matthias Clark, J. Hubble, George Nicholson, (acting as Town Major at Montreal, and Second Lieutenant or Ensign;) John L. Lyn, Surgeon; Hunlock Woodruff, Mate.

Second Regiment: Peter Gansevoort, Henry Van Woort,

First Company: John Fisher.

Second Company: Guy Young.

Third Company: Barent J. TenEyck, Dirck Hanson, John G. Lansing.

Eighth Company: Elisha Benedict.

Ninth Company: John Graham, Nicholas Van Rensselaer, Stephen McCrea, Surgeon.

Third Regiment: James Clinton.

Second Company: John Nicholson.

Fourth Company: LewisDubois,Elias V. Buntchoten.

Seventh Regiment: Jacobus Bruyn, Thomas Dewit, Albert Paulding.

Ninth Company: Cornelius T. Jansen.

Tenth Company: Robert Johnson, Samuel Cooke, Surgeon.

Fourth Regiment: Second Company: Samuel Sacket.

Fifth Company: Ambrose Horton, Samuel J. Pell.

Sixth Company: Daniel Mills.

Tenth Company: David Palmer, William Crane, William Mathewman.

The Names of Commissioned and non-Commissioned Officers of the First Battalion of NEW-YORK, who are willing to enter in the service of their country, and likewise some of the Privates which may be depended upon.

JOHN HILL TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

Ulster County, February 28, 1776.

DEAR SIR: As a friend to my country, I am obliged to address you and the venerable body in which you are a member, about an affair which, I am advised by the most discerning of my neighbours, ought to come under your inspection. The fact is thus: Cadwallader Colden, Esq., son to the Lieutenant-Governour, some years ago obtained a mortgage from me, with a bond and judgment, for security of a certain sum of money due to him from me, and he being unreasonably urgent for his money, which I could not immediately pay, on account of the slow success I had in collecting my own debts, I was obliged to sell part of my lands to satisfy him; but, after I had got the money, and wanted to discharge my bond, he utterly refused to accept of it on account of its being Continental money. The sum was as large as two hundred pounds, and I could not find any person who would change it for other money. Our Committee was about to sit, and hearing of the affair, sent for Mr. Colden, who signed a paper, in which he asserted that he had sold the bond in question to his brother, David Colden, of Long-Island, better than a year ago; that he only offered to receive the money specified in the bond, on this account, and was afraid, in case he would accept of the Congress money, his brother would be dissatisfied, as he had formerly refused such money. This apology passed with our Committee, so that they dismised Mr. Colden. I immediately sent the money to David Colden, who declared he never had such a bond from his brother, and, in order to satisfy my messenger, examined all the bonds in his possession, but could not find mine, and said his brother Cadwallader had it still.

I am really at a loss how to conduct myself about this matter. Double interest is every day to be paid on the money, and I run the risk of being daily liable to have my estate seized on account of said bond, and, perhaps, have it sold for the twentieth part of what it is worth, as I am certain that no person can make the payments in any other money than the Continental, especially in these parts. I rest the matter on your wise decision. I have advanced nothing but matters of fact, which can be attested by several evidences of credit. In case it be thought necessary to write to me, the letter may be directed to John Hill, Esq., near NewWindsor.

Your most obedient and humble servant,

JOHN HILL.

To the President of the Provincial Congress, New-York.

JOHN HAMMELL, JUN., TO NEW-YORK CONGRESS.

At Dr. Hemmena's, New-York, February 28, 1776.

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