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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851. 294 words

Gentlemen Coles Williams has Earnestly Requested me to Call the County Committee and the field offiserers together, in order to Procure Arms for those that haint got none, which, the County Committee have Already Don in their Instructions td our Delegates, and Coles Marsh Informs me that he was Like to get a grant of money from the Provincel Congress, sufficient to Procure three Hundred Arms, for the Benefit of the County, and should have got them, had it not been for that Letter which Mr' Philips and some bikie Did Préyail upon the Committee to send to New York, together with some other informations they have Received, which made them believe that we were agoing _ to Revolt from them, since which they will Do nothing for us, untill they can be assured that we have no such intent, Now by the advice of a number of the members of the County Committee, I earnestly Request that you would call your town together that you may know their minds as a body,

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or as individuals, wheather they Intend to Revolt from the State of New York or not, and be Pleas¢ to send the Proceedings of your Town to Westminster by your County Committee, at their next setting on the first Tuesday of November next, that the County Committee may be able ito send to the Provineal Congress, the minds of the Inhabitants of this County in this Important affair, I Beseach of you, and of every member of this Community, to act Candidly and uprightly in in an affair of such importance as this is, at this Critical Time, your Complyance with the above Request, will greatly oblige a number of thé County Committee, and your Humble Servant