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Robert Treat Paine Papers

Robert Treat Paine Papers, Volume 3

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From David Cobb

19 November 1775

Report on Muskets
To Philip Schuyler
RTP Schuyler, Phillip
Albany Novr. 21st. 1775 Dear Sr.,

This day I arrived here in Company with Mr. Langdon who together with Mr. Robert R. Livingstone1 are a Committee from the Congress to repair to you & consult divers matters mentioned in your 115Letters to the Congress. Mr. Livingstone is not arrived here, but proposed to join to morrow night, after which we shall make all dispatch possible. Mean while We thought it proper to inform you thus far by this Express, who goes so soon to morrow that we have not time to enlarge. We have brought with us blank Commissions for the New Army to be raised.

We congratulate you on the Success of our Army & hoping the restoration of your health I am your most Obedient hble. Servt.,

Rob Treat Paine

RC (bMS Sparks 49.2 [77], Houghton Library, Harvard University) ; internal address: “General Schuyler.”

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Robert R. Livingston (1746–1813) was a member of a prominent New York landowning family. He graduated from King’s College in 1765 and was admitted to the bar in 1770. An active revolutionary, he served in the Continental Congress for several terms (1775–1776, 1779–1781, and 1784–1785). Active in committee work, he served on the drafting committee for the Declaration of Independence but had returned to New York before it was signed. From 1777 to 1801, he was chancellor of New York State; from 1781 to 1783, secretary of foreign affairs; and from 1801 to 1804, minister plenipoteniary to France ( DAB ).