Colonel Van Schaick informed that there is no probablility of their being able to supply Arms

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A draught of a Letter to Colonel Goose Van Schaick, of the Third Regiment, was read and approved, and is in the words following, to wit:

In Provincial Congress, New-York, September 1, 1775.

SIR: We received your letter by express, dated the

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29th ultimo. We have given the necessary orders in this City to collect all the arms that can be got; but we are sorry to inform you that there is no probability of receiving a supply sufficient to answer immediately the demand of the Companies of the Third and Fourth Regiments, now at Albany. No other expedient, therefore, remains to obtain a sufficient quantity, than by endeavouring to purchase or hire them.

Mr. Curtenius informs us that all the necessaries for those Companies are sent, or will be sent by the first opportunity. He will also forward to-morrow, by Captain Cooper, for Albany, most of the other necessary accoutrements for Colonel Holmes' s Companies, now with you, arms excepted.

Your letter directed to Mr. Trumbull, we have delivered to him, and you will receive his answer by this opportunity. If General Schuyler has left no directions to Mr. Trumbull to pay the men at Albany, it may be necessary for you to send an express to Ticonderoga, in order to procure such an order by the time he comes up, as it is probable he will not conceive himself authorized to pay them without such an order.

To Colonel Goose Van Schaick, at Albany.

Ordered, That a copy thereof be engrossed, and signed by the President pro tempore, and transmitted by the Messenger from Albany.

Colonel Van Schaick informed that there is no probablility of their being able to supply Arms to the Thrid and Fourth Regiments now at Albany. [1775-09-01] New-York, Congress. [S4-V3-p0572] [Document Details][Complete Volume]