New-Hampshire Delegates to Committee of Safety

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Philadelphia, October 7, 1775.

SIR: We wrote you a few days since fully, desiring the accounts of our supplies to be forwarded immediately, as also the number of inhabitants, as soon as may be. This serves chiefly to enclose a resolve of the Congress, which we were ordered to forward to the several Conventions immediately, that they might take such spirited measures as to them might seem meet.

By the last advice from London, the Ministry seem wickedly inclined to burn more Towns; therefore we would humbly suggest the propriety of securing our sea-ports, as thereby we should not only secure the capital, but prevent the sons of depredation from ravaging the Country, and thereby completing their diabolical designs.

By express just arrived from General Schuyler, we are likely soon to be in possession of St˙ John' s and Canada, as the former is held besieged by our Troops, and the Canadians join us; the Indians are also friendly.

We are, with respect, your most obedient servants,

JOSIAH BARTLETT,
JOHN LANGDON.

Matthew Thornton, Esq.