Colonel Ethan Allen; Major Samuel Elmore, of the Connecticut Farms; Colonel James Easton, of Pittsfield; Captain Seth Warner; Captain Hezekiah Balding, Captain Ebenezer Marvin, Captain Remember Baker, Captain George White; Captain James Noble, commandant at this place; Captain Amos Chapple; Captain Wait Hopkins; Captain Joseph McCracken; Captain John Grand; Captain Barnabus Barnum; Captain James Wills; Lieutenant Ira Allen; Lieutenant Oliver Parmerly; Isaac Hitchcock, Commissary; Stephen Bay, clerk to Major Elmore.

Honoured Sirs:  We, whose names are prefiexed above, do in Council approve of and nominate Colonel Ethan Allen, Captain Seth Warner, and Captain Remember Baker, to meet you in Congress, to consult and have your advice upon this move, which we have understood that you have approved;² we are now in possession of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. And this day, at five o'clock, our armed sloop and schooners arrived here and furnished us with intelligence, that about three hundred of the Regular forces were at St. John's, fortifying and intrenching upon the Grants near this place. We think it might be practicable, in case of emergency, to raise about five hundred men, in case (as they are poor) of encouragement. Colonel Allen has behaved, in this affair, very singularly remarkable for his courage, and must, in duty, recommend him to you and the whole Continent.

A number of gentlemen, among whom were Major Elmore of Connecticut, and Colonel Easton, of Pittsfield, contributed, as a present, to a number of Indians of the Caughnawagas and Captain Ninham, of Stockbridge, largely out of their own pockets, who ask no fee nor reward; it was given upon their assurance of friendship. The majority of us have seen the marks of his abuse that he had received at St. John's from the Regulars; they assure us (and we believe that the Indians will meddle in no way) that they understand this affair to be a family dispute