Letter from the Committee for Westchester County to the New-York Committee of Safety

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White-Plains, January 8, 1776.

SIR: The Committee of Westchester County, having seen in the publick prints, that many of the inhabitants of Queen' s County are thrown out of the protection of the Provincial Congress, and having been informed that they are arming in their defence, are greatly alarmed at their conduct, and beg leave to assure your honourable House, that the friends of liberty in this County are willing, strenuously, to exert themselves to reduce the enemies to their country, before they are supported by the regular troops, if it shall be thought most advisable by the Committee of Safety, or the Provincial or Continental Congresses.

We are, sir, your most humble servants.

By order of the Committee:

WILLIAM MILLER, Deputy Chairman.

To Mr˙ Pierre Van Cortlandt, President of the Committee of Safety.