have appealed and on whose advice they pretend to rely requesting them to interpose their authority and 'recommend to the s4 Insurgents a peaceable submission to the jurisdiction of this State and also to disband the said Regiment directed to be raised by Mt Warner as this Convention hath chearfully and voluntarily undertaken to raise a Regiment in addition to the Quota assigned for this State by Congress have opened their utmost Resources to the wants & necessities of the American Army have a very great proportion of their militia now in the Field & are heartily disposed to contribute to the public service in every Respect as far as the Circumstances and abilities of the State will permit. All which nevertheless is most humbly subinitted.

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HON. A. TEN BROECK TO THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS. Sir, ' '

Iam directed by the committee of safety of New York, to inform Congress, that by the arts and influence of certain designing men, a part of this state hath been prevailed on to revolt, and disavow the authority of its legislature.

It is our misfortune to be wounded so soon, sensibly, while we are making our utmost exertions in the common cause. The various evidences and informations we have received, would lead us to believe, that persons of great influence in some of our sister states, have fostered and fomented these divisions, in order to dismember this state, at a time when, by the inroads of our common enemy, we were supposed to be incapacitated from defending our just claims: but as these informations tend to accuse some members of your honorable body of being concerned in this scheme, decency obliges us to suspend our belief.