Feeling the keenest sensibility on account of the many and deep wounds which have been inflicted on our Country by the Republic of France—Seeing that Republic deaf to the voice of reason, justice and truth and instead of reparations avowing the continuation of her system of hostility and plunder, and adding insults of the grossest nature to injuries already received; and observing Sir, that in your opinion “America must reassume her warlike character and that in a manner more decisive and universal than at any former period”. It becomes the indispensible duty of the Young Citizens of the United States, after the bright example of their Fathers to prefer the dangers of the field, to days of inglorious ease and to hold their lives in less estimation than the Independence of their Country—

In Consideration whereof a Company of Volunteers in Elizabeth Town in the Borough of Elizabeth and State of New Jersey have associated themselves together (a Copy of which association is herewith sent), and in order that they may join in the most active manner in vindicating the honor of the Nation and in repelling from it those injuries with which it is threatened (in the intoxication of success) by a power regardless of all the Rights of humanity, the Laws of nations, and the most solemn Treaties. They do in presence of Almighty God whose aid they implore upon this solemn occasion, dedicate themselves to the service of their Country, at this eventful crisis, and do offer themselves accordingly as a Volunteer Corps, under the denomination of Elizabeth Town Volunteers, agreeably to the provision of an Act of Congress lately passed for raising a provisional Army and do request that they may be accepted and Officers appointed accordingly—

Signed by order and in behalf of said Volunteer Company,