Committee From Connecticut to New-York Congress

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New-York, May 24, 1775.

SIR: The House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut have appointed us a Committee on their behalf to wait on the "Provincial Convention of this Province, in order to procure intelligence of the measures that may be adopted by said Convention, respecting the common cause, of the British Colonies; to communicate

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a true state of the measures taken by said Colony; and to cultivate the friendship and harmony which subsists between this Province and that Colony:" we therefore take the liberty, through you, to communicate the business of our appointment to the Provincial Convention of this Province, and to inform them that we are at Mrs. Blau' s opposite the Exchange, and should esteem it a favour to be furnished from time to time with accounts of the steps taken by the Convention, "that respect the general cause of the British Colonies;" and that we are ready, on our part, "to communicate a true state of the measures adopted by the Colony of Connecticut," and to use all means in our power "to cultivate and improve the friendship subsisting between this Province and said Colony."

We are, Sir, your most obedient humble servants,
NATHANIEL WALES,
THADDEUS BURR,
PIERPONT EDWARDS.

Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq.