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Whereas the Provincial Congress have recommended that a number of Powder-Mills be immediately built within this Colony, with certain encouragements to such persons as will undertake to erect the same, provided such persons be recommended by the Committee of the County where such mills are to be erected; and application having been made to us, the Members of the Committee of the County of Ulster, by Henry Wisner, Junior, Esq˙, and Major Moses Phillips, both of the said County, for our recommendation of them as proper persons to build and carry on one of the Powder-Mills ordered by said resolutions, we, therefore, do humbly recommend the said Henry Wisner, Jun˙, Esq˙, and Major Phillips, in copartnership/as proper persons (having
By order of the Committee, this 4th day of April, 1776.
JOHANNES HARDENBERGH, Chairman.
Ulster County Committee
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the convenience of a good stream, &c˙) to erect one of said mills, and carry on the business of manufacturing Gunpowder, according to the direction of the Congress.