Letter from New-York Congress

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In Provincial Congress, New-York, March 4, 1776,

SIR: This accompanies the resolve of Congress requesting you to hold your regiment in readiness to march at a moment' s warning. We are apprehensive that the Ministerial Army at Boston may attempt to land in this Colony in a short time. Your zeal for the publick cause, we trust, will stimulate, you, and the officers under your command, to use all possible diligence to comply with this resolution. We have only to add that no time should be lost in executing this order, and that you forthwith return to this Congress, or the Committee of Safety, the present state of your regiment, as to the number of men, arms, accoutrements, and ammunition; and if the Minute Regiments do not compose one-fourth part of the Militia of your County, you are hereby ordered to cause the Minute Regiments to be completed, agreeable to the rules and orders of this Congress, of the 20th of December last.