Tryon County Committee to New-York to Congress

v2:1668

Tryon County, July 15, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: The persons appointed by your Congress to be officers to a company to be raised in this County, having declined, and returned their warrants to this Committee, we beg leave to recommend Christopher P˙ Yates to be Captain, Andrew Finck, Jr˙, and John Keyser, Jr˙, to be Lieutenants of the said company, who have accepted of the same, and by the request of this Committee have begun to enlist their men. Permit us to observe, that they are well affected to American liberty, and are competent to the task. We therefore beg than you will approve of them, and send them new warrants.

Your very humble servants. By order of the Committee,

NICHOLAS HERKIMER,

Chairman pro tempore.

To the Provincial Congress of New-York.