" It gives us great pain to inform you that the aid received from our "sister StateB is very inadequate to our expectations, none of them hav- ** ing yet completed the levies directed by 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." (Tlie Convention of New York to the Delegation from Ncio York in the Continental Congress, " Harlem, 7th Au- "gust, 1776, A.M.")
" It is our great misfortune that, at this important crisis, this State is "unable to make those exertions which the cause of America requires. "From tlie disaffection of some among us; from the want of arms ; "from the exposed situation of Long Islaud and our frontiers ; from the "possession of one County by the enemy ; and from the probability of " our being called upon to reinforce tho northern Army, we are unable "to add much strength to your Excellency's command, being, by the "several reasons above-mentioned, deprived of tho assistance at nine "Counties out of fourteen which compose this State. Noth withstanding "all these difficulties, We are determined to combat every obstacle and "to Btrain 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 Resolutions for ordering the several drafts made in the "Comities of Suffolk, Queens, Kings, Westchester, Duchess, Ulster, and "Orange, to the environs of New York, we hope, in about sixdays, to "add near throe thousand men to your Army.