I •* It gives us great pain to inform yon that the aid received from our "sister States is very inadequate to our expei tations, none of them hav- ''ing yet comjtleted the levies diri'cted liy Congress, which leaves us "reason to fear that, instead of using every means that human wisdom "dictates, for ensuring success, we shall, (with inferior numbers,) on "the doubtful issue of a single battle, hazard the glorious cause for " which we have hitherto struggled." (Thr Convention nf Neir I'ln k to the Delegation from Xew York in the Continental Congress, "Harlem, 7th An- "gust, 1776, A.M. ")

" It is our great misfortune that, at this important crisis, this State is " unalde to make tho.s« exertions which the canst' of .\merica requires. "From the disaffection of some among us; from the want of arms ; "from the exposed situation of Long Island and our frontiers ; from the " IHissessiou of one County by the enemy; and from the probability of "our being called upon to reinforce the northern Army, we are unable " to add much strength to your Excellency's command, being, by the "sevenil reasons above-mentioned, deprived of the .issistauce of iiiik' "Counties out of fourteen which compose this State. Nothwithstandiug "all these difficulties, we are determined to combat every obstacle and "to strain every nerve in defense of the rights and liberties of America, " which we conceive to be most materially interested in the safety of this "State. By our Rescdutions for ordering the several drafts made in the "Counties of Suffolk, Queens, Kings, AVestchester, Duchess, Ulster, and " Orange, to the environs of New Y'ork, we hope, in about six days, to "add near three thousand men to your Army.