1. In the enclosed resolutions of 4 Sept., Congress recommends that the Pennsylvania executive council “give Orders that all the militia of their State hold themselves in readiness to march at a moment’s warning” and that it “call out five Thousand militia from the city and county of Philadelphia and the counties most adjacent,” and the governor of New Jersey is advised to order 3,000 of his state’s militia to assemble at Bristol, Pa., “with as much despatch as possible” in order to reinforce GW’s army. The enclosure also includes Congress’s resolution of 4 Sept. referring to GW a request of two officers in Ottendorf’s corps for permission to resign their commissions and a record of its decision on that date not to name a commander of the horse (DLC:GW; see also JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 8:710–11). Hancock may have enclosed with this letter the printed broadside of Congress’s resolution of 6 Sept. concerning clothing for the northern army that is in DLC:GW (see also ibid., 715–18).

2. See Hancock to William Livingston, 5 Sept., in Smith, Letters of Delegates description begins Paul H. Smith et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C., 1976–2000. description ends , 7:605–6.