Committee of Rumbout Precinct, Dutchess County, to New-York Congress

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Rumbout Precinct, Dutchess County, September 9, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: By request of Col˙ James Clinton, we have collected all the arms we could for Captains Billings and Dubois' s Companies, in the service of the Provincial Congress, in consequence of a resolve of theirs of the 8th ult˙, the cost whereof you have on the other side, by copy, signed by myself, as Chairman of Rumbout Precinct, Dutchess County. The original receipts and orders are in my hands, which have kept for fear of miscarrying, and have therefore sent the copies, attested by me as Chairman. When the originals are wanted, they shall be sent by a safe hand. In the mean time, the people are anxious for their moneys, and are daily calling for it; for which, as a Committee, we have bound ourselves; therefore desire you will immediately, on receipt hereof, send the sum of money the arms amount to, to myself as Chairman, or to Jacobus Swartwout, Deputy-Chairman, or to Henry Schenck, Clerk, or to Henry Godwin, Deputy-Clerk, who will give receipts to the Congress that the moneys are received, and paid to the persons of whom the arms were purchased.

I am, by order of the Committee, Gentlemen, your humble servant,

DIRCK G˙ BRINCKERHOFF, Chairman.

To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq˙, or, in recess of the Congress, to the Chairman of the Committee of Safety, New-York.