Sir In Answer to Your Favour of this Day, give me Leave to acquaint You, that immediately upon my Receiving the Continental Articles of War, I gave them out to the different Captains & Commanders of Companies in my Regiment, but they universally declined signing them, of Consequence in the Discipline of the Troops under my Command, I was obliged to continue in the Use of the Law Martial of Connecticut, under which they were raised, Which I certainly had a Right to do, by Virtue of my Commission from that Colony, Upon the same Principle I ordered a General Court Martial at Fort George, which, whether right, or not, was never designed in the least, to contradict or counteract Your Authority, as Commander in Chief of the Troops upon this Department. ー

With Regard to the other Question, My Appointment in the Continental Army, You are sensible could not be very agreeable to me, Notwithstanding which, I never should have continued in that Service, had I not determined to observe the Rules of the Army; No Sir, I have the Cause of my Country too much at Heart, to attempt to make any Difficulty or Uneasiness in the Army upon whom the Success of an Enterprize of almost infinite Importance to the Country is now depending ー I shall consider my Rank in the Army, what my Commission from the Continental Congress makes it, and I shall not attempt to dispute the Command with General Montgomery at St Johns. ー As to my Regiment, I consider them, as what they really are, according to the Tenor of their Inlistments and Compact with the Colony of Connecticut, by whom they were raised, and now acting in Conjunction with the Troops of the Other Colonies, in the Service and for the Defence of the Associated Colonies in General. You may depend Sir that I shall exert my self as much as possible to promote the strictest Union and Harmony among both Officers and Soldiers in the Army, & use every Means in my Power to give Success to the Expedition. ー I am Sir, [&c.]

Tyonderoga 19th Octor 1775 ー