The New York Provincial Congress to the Pennsylvania
Committee of Safety
Text printed in Samuel Hazard et al., eds., Pennsylvania Archives (first
series; 12 vols., Philadelphia, 1852-56), IV, 643-4.
<New York, August 16, 1775: A ship we sent for powder some
three months ago has not returned, and our small stock is exhausted
by supplying the camp before Boston with 1655 pounds
and Ticonderoga with 300; all we could procure in this city has
gone to eastern Long Island. We must ask for the loan of a ton or
as much more as you can spare, which we will replace from the
first we receive; we request that the powder be sent immediately,
in a tight cask, in care of the Newark committee. Addressed to
Franklin and the other members of the committee and signed by
P. V. B. Livingston as president.>
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