Letter from Colonel Livingston to Robert R. Livingston, Jun.: If he succeeds in the attempt he is going to make, he shall yet save Suffolk County

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Saybrook, September 12, 1776.

DEAR BROTHER: I have just time to tell you I have been obliged to retreat from Long-Island to this place for several reasons that I have not now time to mention. I have given General Washington a particular account by the same conveyance this is sent by. I shall to — morrow, at the head of four hundred men, set out for Huntington. If I succeed in the attempt I am going to make, I shall yet save Suffolk County, though most of the inhabitants have been prevailed upon to take an oath of allegiance to the King of Great Britain through a persuasion that the Island was given up as indefensible. If you write to me, direct to the care of Governour Trumbull. He has assisted me with two hundred and sixty men; with him a correspondence is established. Remember me to all my friends.

Yours, &c˙,

HENRY B˙ LIVINGSTON.

To Robert R˙ Livingston, Jun˙, Esq˙, in Convention at Fishkills.