1. On 26 March, Congress read a letter dated 19 March from New York governor George Clinton to New York’s delegates (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 , 19:311). Huntington presumably enclosed an extract from this letter: “There is also a bill before the Council of Revision for raising two regiments on the Continental establishment as to the number of Officers & Privates or bounties of unappropriated lands—These troops are to serve for three years and are also to be under the direction of the Commander in Cheif except that they cannot be ordered out of the State without the consent of the Governor for the time being & I am equally restricted from raising them till Congress have consented that their pay subsistance & Clothing shall be a common charge” (DLC:GW; see also Huntington to George Clinton, this date, 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 , 17:129, and James Clinton to GW, 5 April, n.3).

The enclosed congressional resolutions adopted on 2 April read: “Resolved, That the two Regiments of Militia proposed to be embodied in the State of New York to serve ’till the first day of December next as mentioned in Governor Clinton’s Letter of the 19th of March last be paid and subsisted while in Service at the general Expence on the same Terms as the Troops on the continental Establishment.

“That the two Regiments of Infantry proposed to be raised in the said State to serve for three Years as mentioned in the aforesaid Letter be paid, subsisted and clothed while in Service at the general Expence on the same Terms as the Troops on the continental Establishment; provided the said State shall first fill up their Quota of Troops for the continental Army, And that the Regiments, particularly the two last mentioned, be officered as far as may be, by the reduced Officers belonging to that State, And that the Officers be proportioned to the Number of Men actually in Service” (DLC:GW). The original legislation included a paragraph that is struck out in the journals of Congress following the first resolution: “Provided, That the two last mentioned Regiments be placed under the entire direction of the Commander in Chief in the same manner as continental troops from the other States” (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 , 19:339). A congressional reform of the Continental army had assigned each state a troop quota and reduced the number of officers (see General Orders, 1 Nov. 1780).