Letter from the Provincial Congress of New York to the Commissioners at the Highlands

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New-York, December 5, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The Continental Congress have ordered six companies of ninety men each, besides those already here, to be placed in the fortifications on Hudson river. These six companies are nearly ready, and if barracks can be fit to receive, them, may be there in eight days. We earnestly request you to have sufficient barracks completed for a thousand men, if possible, and to lay in immediately a sufficient quantity of fire-wood for the barracks that now are and can be built.

We are, gentlemen, your humble servants. By order.

To John Grenell, Samuel Bayard, William Bedlow, and Jonathan Lawrence, Esquires.