Philadelphia 5th Decr. 1775
Gentlemen
I have the honor to inclose you a resolve of Congress in answer to your application for assistance.1 The three companies therein ordered will march in a few days, and I hope will be sufficient, with the assistance of the good and virtuous Men of Northampton, to secure the peace of your county, and prevent any lapse from the great Continental system so well laid, and so necessary for securing the just constitutional rights and Liberty of North America.
I have the honor to be Gentlemen your most humble servant,
Richard Henry Lee
Receiver’s copy, Haverford College Library.
Printed in James Curtis Ballagh, The Letters of Richard Henry Lee, Volume 1, 1762 - 1778, p. 164. Addressed to the chairman of the committee.
1 See JCC, 3:395, 403 - 4; and Francis Lightfoot Lee to Robert W. Carter, December 2. 1775.