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Letter to Benjamin Franklin. [1775-08-17] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0534] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
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A draught of a Letter to Benjamin Franklin, Esq., and the Secret Committee at Philadelphia, and also to the Committee of Elizabethtown, was read and approved of, and is in the words following, to wit:
In Provincial Congress, New-York, August 17, 1775.
GENTLEMEN: You will easily see the propriety of enclosing to you a paragraph of General Washington' s Letter of the 10th instant, and you will not need the hint, which we take the liberty to give you, that the intelligence ought to be communicated to the several Committees of your Colony.
We are Gentlemen, very respectfully, your most obedient and humble servants.
Ordered, That two copies thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President, one to be directed to Benjamin Franklin, Esq., and the Secret Committee at Philadelphia, and the other to be directed to the Committee of Elizabethtown; and that a copy of the paragraph of General Washington' s Letter, which mentions General Gage' s removal, be enclosed in each of them.
Adjourned to nine o' clock, to-morrow morning.
Letter to Benjamin Franklin