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Town-Meeting, Orange County, New-York

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TOWN-MEETING, ORANGE COUNTY, NEW-YORK.

At an annual Town-Meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the Precinct of Goshen, in the County aforesaid, on Tuesday the 4th of April, 1775, the following question, Whether any Deputies should be sent from this Precinct to meet Deputies from the other Counties at New-York, the 20th instant, to join with them in choosing proper persons as Delegates on the part of this Province, to meet in General Congress at Philadelphia, on the 10th of May next, was put, and carried unanimously in the affirmative.

A motion was then made by several persons, that Henry Wisner and Peter Clowse, Esquires, be appointed Deputies for the above purpose; and the question being accordingly put, it was carried in the affirmative, without one dissenting voice.

And at an annual Town-Meeting held the day aforesaid

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at Cornwall Precinct, in the County aforesaid, a motion was made, that Mr˙ Israel Seely, of said Precinct, be appointed one of the Deputies for the aforesaid County, to meet Deputies from the other Counties, at New-York, on the 20th instant, to join in choosing some proper persons to be sent as Delegales to represent this Province in General Congress at Philadelphia, the 10th of next month; and the question being accordingly put, it was carried by a great majority in the affirmative.

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