Letter from Captain Davis to the New-York Congress

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Easthampton, April 3, 1776.

GENTLEMEN: Your warrant was handed me. I have endeavoured to inlist the men agreeable to the instructions contained therein. But as no time is limited for the men' s inlistment, It much retards the business; and a very great uneasiness arises in the minds of some very good men, who would gladly enter the service, on account of the wages being reduced; and it is reported among them, that the wages given at Connecticut is the same this year as it was the last. If it had not been for the objections above, I should by tills time have filled my company. The number I have inlisted is about seventy, and hope soon to complete the whole. I am your humble servant to command,

JOHN DAVIS.

To the Provincial Congress, or Committee of Safety, of New-York.