New-York Committee

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New-York, August 16, 1775.

The Sub-Committee, appointed by the General Committee to divide the City and County of New-York into Beats or Districts for forming the Militia, agreeable to the Resolution of the Continental and Provincial Congresses, request that the Captains of Colonel Lasher' s Battalion, the Independent and Associated Companies, Captains of Light-Horse and Hussars, furnish their respective men forthwith, with certificates of their being enlisted in their said companies, the better to enable the Committee to form the said Beats agreeable to the said Resolution.

WILLIAM BEDLOW, Chairman.