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A Return of a Regiment of Levies raised for the immediate Defence of the Frontiers of this State Commanded by Marinus Willett. Albany 21 May, 1781.

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Congress Calls upon the States to Make Good Their Ratio of Currency on a Specie Basis.

By The United States in Congress assembled.

May 22d 1781.

The report of the Committee appointed to devise further ways and means to carry on the present campaign &c. was taken into consideration whereupon,

Resolved That the whole debts already due by the United States be liquidated as soon as may by to their specie value and funded if agreeable to the Creditors as a loan upon Interest.

That the States be severally informed that the calculations of the expences for the present Campaign are made in solid coin and consequently that the requisitions from them respectively being grounded on those calculations must be complied with in such manner as effectually to answer the purpose designed. That experience having evinced the inefficacy of all attempts to support the credit of the paper money by compulsory acts, it is recommended to such States where laws making paper bills a tender yet exist to repeal the same.

That the States be further informed, that the exigency and situation of public affairs is such, that any farther delay in complying with the requisitions of Congress must prove ruinous, and that, therefore, the treasurer of the United States is directed immediately to draw orders on the treasurers of the several States payable at thirty days sight for their respective quotas of the three millions of dollars called for on the 26th day of August 1780, and which was to have been paid into the Continental treasury on or before the last day of Dec'r last and that he will in like manner continue to draw orders on them for their respective quotas of the sums called for by the acts of the 4th of November and 16th of March last, as they become due; and that it is expected the States will severally direct their treasurers to accept those orders as soon as presented and take effectual measures to enable their respective treasurers to pay them punctually as they become due.

Extract from the Minutes.

Chas. Thomson Sec'y.

[No. 3739.]

Lieutenant Burnside Asks to be Relieved from Further Duty in Raising Levies.

Harverstraw, May 22d 1781. Sir, I send you inclosed, a return* of the recruits I have inlisted and received for Colo. Lamb's regt. of Artillery. I am sorry that it has not been in my power to recruit more, tho' I can assure your Excellency that I have used every exertion to procure them, ever since I received your Orders for the purpose. It is now out of my power to inlist any more in this quarter, would, therefore, beg your Excellency that I might be recalled from this busness. I have the honor to be your Excellency's most obt. humble Serv't

His Excellency Governor George Clinton.

Jno. Burnside.

[No. 3740.]

Officers of the Town of Orange Offer a Suggestion in the Line of

Military Duty.

To his Excellency George Clinton, Esquire Governor of the State of New York. General and Commander in Chief of all the militia and admiral of the navy of the same.

The Petition of the militia officers of the town of Orange, in Orange County, in behalf of themselves and those they have the Honour to Command.

Most Humbly Sheweth, That your Petitioners while able have been as forward as those of any other part of the State, in complying with the orders they have from time

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to time received from your Excellency, and it gives them pain even to think that they should not be able to keep up with others; yet such is the Case, that many of the inhabitants of said township have sustained such heavy Losses from the incursions of the enemy and the unnecessary waste and destruction committed by the army of these States, that your Petitioners are much perplexed with the orders for raising every twentieth man: the inhabitants being destitute of money and their grain has last year been destroyed by the army of these States.

That your Petitioners cannot avoid remarking that they have yearly, and every year, during the continuance of the present war, been called upon for men to guard the frontiers; that they have at all times readily complied, every time expecting, that, as they were a frontier part of the state and lay much exposed, the men raised among them would remain for the defence of the said township, but they have as often been disappointed in their expections, and after having raised the said men, they have been under the necessity of keeping great part of the remaining militia upon constant duty. Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that your Excellency will not insist upon the militia of said town raising every twentieth man in the manner required by the orders of your Excellency, but that your Petitioners may be indulged with keeping or furnishing a guard of as many men as will be equal to the number of men required, to guard and protect the frontier parts of said Township, and that the said guard may from time to time be relieved by an equal number of the militia of the said town. And your Petitioners shall ever pray &c. &c.

May ye 22d A. D. 1781.

Johannes Blauvelt, Capt. Mathias Conklin, Lut., Henry Hendrix, Lut.,

Johannis Bell, Capt., Daniel Onderdonck, Ensign, John Sitcher, Leut., William Graham, Lut.

J. M. Hogenkamp, Capt. Cornelus Blauvelt, Leut., Jacob Sickels, Ensign

Henry Tourneur, Capt. Walter Vanorden, Lieut. Thos. Blauvelt, Lieut. Theunis Taulman, Lieut. Derick V derbelt, Lieut. Harman Taulman, Ens. Andres Onderdunck, lut. John Meyer, ins.

John Smith, Major John L. Smith, Major.

[No. 3741.]

FORT SCHUYLER TO BE EVACUATED.

Governor Clinton to Confer with Washington on the Frontier Problem-The Problem of Reinforcements and Subsistence.

Albany, May 22d, 1781.

Sir, Your favour of the 19th Inst. with the Inclosed from Genl. Washington of the 18th I have had the pleasure to receive. Agreeable to your desire I have consulted with Generals Rensselaer, and Gansevoort, the Mayor and Council and several other Gentlemen respecting the abandoning of Fort. Schuyler; and establishing a Post at the German Flatts, who are unanimous in opinion that under our present circumstances the Fort should be evacuated and the Garrison removed to Fort Herkemen; I have this day, accordingly, given orders for that purpose, a Copy of a Letter to Lieut. Colo. Cochran, I herewith inclose you.

As Genl. Schuyler is at Saratoga I have not had an oppertunity to consult him on that head but have wrote him for his opinion.

If we Erect a Post at the above mentioned place, an Engineer will be wanted for that purpose. Last night I received an Express from Genl. Schuyler and Lieuts. Colo. Van Dyck, which contains all the news I have at present from the northward. The Letters for Genl. Washington here inclosed are left open for your perusal. I am confident the Enemy intend something serious against our Frontiers; in short, we have but few men to the northward as Colonel Cortlandt's Regiment with part of the new Levies will be for a considerable time employed to assist in the Evacuation of Fort Schuyler. I would wish to have the other six Companies of the Brigade which are at West Point, if I could see any prospect of supplying them with provisions, as I am confident that even they, will not be adequate. I have been able to procure a Quantity of Flour by impress; the Chief appears to be purchas'd for the use of French army, which is considerable, amounting to near three thousand Barrels. I have not been able to procure one Barrel of Beef or Fish; the Flour I have yet not removed, but the purchasers have promised not to send it off without my notice or consent.

23d. Since yesterday I have detained my Letter, expecting to receive farther intelligence from the Northward; last night Hagenbottom, the pretended deserter, and Meaker of the first New York Regiment, were brought to Town. They are both in Irons anl Close confined; at the same time a second Letter from Genl. Schuyler was received with one for Genl. Washington which is left open for your perusal. I am, Sir, your Humb'e serv't

Governor Clinton.

James Clinton.

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