Letter from John Trumbull to Governour Trumbull: Pleased that the tents and clothing are coming. Finds there is so much ceremony in the Congress

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Ty˙, September 3, 1776.

HONOURED SIR: Last night Brown arrived with yours to the General and me. We are pleased that the tents and clothing are coming.

One Colonel Brown arrived from York to-day with letters from our friends there, giving the same accounts.

The General has just now dispatched an express to Congress. The necessary work, &c˙, in my department has employed my time so fully that I can only write a line. The General has.

I find there is so much ceremony in the Congress, that I am not to be appointed in this place without a particular recommendation. As my name has been mentioned by General Gates, I have informed my brother at York that I shall ask no further recommendation. I am very willing to retire the moment that my country is desirous of it, or that Congress think that they can better the army by appointing an officer in my place.

You will not be surprised, sir, if you should hear me displaced. An inferior post I shall by no means accept, but either enter in the fleet as a privateer or return home.

I am, honoured sir, your dutiful

JOHN TRUMBULL, D˙ A˙ G˙

To the Hon˙ Jon' fh˙ Trumbull, Esq˙, Governour of the Colony of Connecticut.