COLONEL BURBECK TO COLONEL KNOX.

Cambridge, April 12, 1776.

SIR: I see, by your instructions from his Excellency, I am ordered to New-York directly. When I came out of Boston, the Provincial Congress voted me one hundred and fifty pounds during the war, and four shillings sterling a day for life. It would be ungenerous for me to leave their service, as they have provided so well for me. If I leave their service, the four shillings a day is lost to me. As 1 am advanced in years, I am unwilling to part with it.

I am not able to set out directly to New-York, because I am finishing the drafts for cannon, mortars, and carriages, for the Province.

I hope, sir, the above will excuse me for not complying with your orders.

To Colonel Henry Knox.

DECLARATION BY THE INHABITANTS OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

To the Selectmen of . . . . . . .

In order to carry the underwritten Resolve of the honourable Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all Males, above twenty-one years of age, (Luna-ticks, Idiots, and Negroes excepted,) to sign the Declaration on this paper; and, when so done, to make return thereof, together with the name, or names, of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly, or Committee of Safety of this Colony.

M. WEARE, Chairman.

“In Congress, March 14, 1776.

Resolved, That it be recommended to the several Assemblies, Conventions, and Councils, or Committees of Safety, of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all persons to be disarmed, within their respective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to defend, by Arms, the United Colonies, against the hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Armies.

“Extract from the Minutes:

“Charles Thomson, Secretary.”

In consequence of the above Resolution of the Continental Congress, and to show our determination in joining our American brethren in defending the lives, liberties, and properties of the inhabitants of the United Colonies:

We, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies.

To the Honourable the Committee of Safety for the State of NEW-HAMPSHIRE, or the General Assembly thereof:

Pursuant to the request on this paper from the Committee of Safety, &c., to us directed, we have invited those persons therein mentioned, to sign the Declaration on this paper, &c.; and all that have seen it have signed, except Joshua Atherton, Esq., Mr. Daniel Campbell, Mr. Samuel Dodge, and Colonel John Shepard.

Refused to sign, Edhall Burgen.

To the Honourable the General Assembly of the Colony of NEW-HAMPSHIRE:

This may certify your Honours, that Simon Baxter, Samuel Chandler, John Thomson, and Samuel Miller, have refused to sign the within Association Agreement. Certified by us,