Meeting of Committees at Sag-Harbour, New-York

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At a meeting of the Committee of the Towns of Southhampton and Easthampton, and Shelter-Island, and convened at Sag-Harbour, in Suffolk County, the 14th day of August, 1775:

Whereas, several imputations have been industriously propagated and spread abroad concerning Colonel Abraham Gardiner, Thomas Wickham, and David Mulford, Esquire, Executors to the Estate of David Gardiner, Esquire, deceased, of being concerned in assisting the Troops under General Gage in getting the Cattle, Sheep, &c˙, from Gardiner' s Island, either by previous contract or by designedly persuading the people there was no danger, when they supposed they really knew their design; we, the said Committee, having examined evidences under oath, and considered every circumstance relative to said affair, do unanimously conclude, that the said Colonel Abraham Gardiner, and the other Executors, are entirely clear from all such imputations, and that all such reflections were altogether groundless. Signed by order of the Committee:

BURNET MILLER, Chairman.