Memorial of sundry persons in New-York to the Provincial Congress

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To the Honourable the Provincial Congress of NEW-YORK: The Memorial of sundry persons within the City of NEW-YORK, sheweth:

That a difference of opinion hath arisen in this City with respect to the propriety of shipping flaxseed to Ireland from this Colony; some urging that it was not the intent of the Continental Congress that any should be shipped, and others insisting that the contrary appears, not only from the Resolutions of the Continental Congress, but from the declaration of several of the Delegates upon that subject. The memorialists are apprehensive that should flaxseed be shipped while this difference of sentiment prevails, it might create some uneasiness in this City; and being informed that some of the Continental Delegates have signified to this Congress that the sense of the late Continental Congress, respecting this matter, was, that we were left at liberty to ship flaxseed, the memorialists beg that the Congress will, by some act or publication of theirs, declare whether the people of this Colony are, or are not at liberty to ship flaxseed as aforesaid, and also to satisfy the publick of the sense of the Continental Congress on that subject, if such their sense has been communicated to this Congress as before suggested.

THOMAS GALBREATH,
JOHN FRANKLIN,
DANIEL PHOENIX,
MURRAY, SANSOM & Co˙,
WILLIAM NIELSON,
COMPORT SANDS,
PETER CLOPPER,
JOSHUA T˙ DE ST˙ CROIX,
MOTT Z˙ BONNE,
JACOB WATSON,
FRED˙ RHINELANDER,
EDWARD & WM˙ LAIGHT,
THOMAS PEARSALL,
TEMPLETON & STEWART.

New-York, August 12, 1775.