5 The Provincial Congress evidently called the attention of the Delegation in the Continental Congress to the subject, as it promised to do, in its letter to Governor Trumbull ; and on the eleventh of January, 1776, the Delegation wrote, in reply : "We highly applaud the spirit, " and, at the same time, respectful manner in which you have supported "the dignity and independence of our Culony, and demanded, reparation "on the subject of the Connecticut inroad. An interposition, so rash, "officious, and violent gave us great anxiety, as it was not only a high "insult to ynur authority, but had a direct tendency to coufirm that fatal "spirit of jealousy and distrust of our eastern brethren which lias done "so much injury to our cause, and which every wise and virtuous patriot "should Btudy to suppress. The Government of Connecticut, we are "persuaded, will not only do you the justice which you havo required, "but adopt effectual means to restrain their inhabitants from similar attempts in future. In this expectation, we shall take the liberty " to defer the application to Congress which you direct, until we are "favoured with a copy of Governor Trumbull's answer to your letter." [Philip I/ivingston, James Duane, John Jay, Henry Wisner, and William Floyd to the Provincial Congress, "Philadelphia, 5th January, 1776.")
The Governor of Connecticut having, meanwhile, taken no notice whatever of the letter which the Provincial Congress had written to him, in the preceding December, on the 8th of March, 1776, the latter informed the Delegation from New York in the Continental Congress, of that fact, (Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Veneris, " 10 ho., A.M., March 8, 1776 ; ") but there seems to have been no action, on that subject, in the former body, then or at any other time.