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Philadelphia, March 19, 1776.
GENTLEMEN: We beg leave to recommend to your particular attention the enclosed request from the Delegates of Maryland. We are not sufficiently acquainted with the state of our artillery to judge whether it will be in your power to oblige a sister Colony on this pressing occasion. We can only say that it will give us great pleasure if you can consistently contribute to the safety of Maryland, from whose Delegates our Colony has always received a uniform and zealous support. Their friendship in procuring an instruction from their Convention expressly directing them to move and use their endeavours for procuring relief to our Colony in the article of tea, and their generous offer to supply us with a ton of their scanty stock of powder some
We have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, gentlemen, your most obedient, humble servants,
JAMES DUANE,
To the Honourable Convention of New-York.
Letter from New-York Delegates in Congress to the Committee of Safety
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months ago, deserve our grateful acknowledgments, and the esteem of our constituents. We could not, indeed, avail ourselves of the last favour, because the interposition of Congress was necessary, and we had reason to be apprehensive that the powder would have been sent another way, where it was then thought more necessary.
JOHN ASLOP,
JOHN JAY,
LEWIS MORRIS.