Aleot was with you I shall attend as soon as Possiable I should think the men raised under Hossington should be Paid and kept for Servise if not held none be Paid but them that has done real Servise that will not be much, but if they are continued they may be servisable in future if the whole money is sent and all that will muster to be Paid and care taken that no more Billeting is paid than has been in Servise.

Tho the Frontiers this way has seemed to leave you yet you will ever care for the whole I think that ever and an army of. observation is wanted here it is now both on acct. of Internal as well as External Enemys you will advise as you think best and rely you will do every thing for the good of the whole without having any regard to Private views I am Gent,

Your most obedient Humble servant, Jacop BAyLrEy.

932 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

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

_ [March 1#, 1777.] Sir, : The inclosed letters and resolutions were proposed some time since ; but for reason with which you need not be troubled, were delayed--some late proceedings of the disaffected within this state, occasions their now being transmitted. am directed to inform you, that the convention are engaged in establishing a firm and permanent system of government. When this important business is accomplished, they will dispatch a satisfactory state of their boundaries, and the principles on which they are founded, for the information of Congress. In the mean time, they depend upon the justice of your honorable house, in adopting every wise and salutary expedient to suppress ' the mischiefs that must ensue to this state and the general confederacy, from the unjust and pernicious project of such. of the inhabitants of New York as, merely, from selfish and interested motives, have fomented this dangerous insurrection The Congress may be assured, that the spirit of defection, notwithstanding all the arts and violence of the seducers, is, by no means, general.