I received your letter respecting the Resolutions of Congress relative to the pretended State of Vermont at this Place where I have collected'a large: body of the Militia 'of the State in order to-strengthen the Continental Army and to oppose the Designs of the Common Enemy--my public letter to Congress of this date is expressive of my sentiments on those Resolutions & I am confirmed in them by the. concurring opinion of several members of the Legislature & of the principal officers of Government who are now with me in the field. J Jament extremely that at-a crisis so alarming not only to the safety of the State but to the general weal I should be under the necessity of withdrawing from the immediate command of the militia at this Place & of convening the Legislature in order to lay before them the Resolutions of Congress. What effect this must necessarily have upon the militia I shall leave it to yourselves to determine. Had the Resolutions of Congress taken proper notice of the late attrocious outrage committed against the Authority of this State by an officer holding Rank in their service and had they adopted some measure for liberating the civil & military officers of the county of Cumberland now imprisoned by persisting in their allegiance to this State & for preventing the like outrages in future it might at least for the present have in some measure atoned for the insufficiency of their Resolutions. How the interposition of this State in favor of their Servants can consistent with its Honor & Justice be longer withheld I am at a loss to determine. You will be pleased to direct your next letters for me at Pokeepsie.