May 3, 1775
"In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 3, 1775.
"To the Honourable AMERICAN Continental Congress, to be convened at PHILADELPHIA on the 10 th of MAY instant.
"MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOURS: The Congress of this Colony, impressed with the deepest concern for their Country, under the present critical and alarming state of its publick affairs, beg leave, with the utmost submission, whilst acting in support of the cause of America, to request the direction and assistance of your respectable Assembly.
"The enclosed packet, containing copies of the depositions which we have despatched for London, also an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain, and a letter to our Colony agent, Benjamin Franklin, esq˙, are humbly submitted to your consideration.
"The sanguinary zeal of the Ministerial Army to ruin and destroy the inhabitants of this Colony, in the opinion of this Congress hath rendered the establishment of an Army indispensably necessary; we have accordingly passed an unanimous resolve for thirteen thousand six hundred men ..."
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