Precinct of Shawangunk, in the County of Ulster, New-York

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A certain Pamphlet entitled "Free Thoughts on the Resolves of the Congress," &c˙, under the signature of "A˙ W˙ Farmer," dated 16th of November, 1774, having been privately dispersed among several of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Ulster, a notification thereof was given by a publick advertisement, whereon a number of the most respectable Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Precinct of Shawangunk, in the County of Ulster, met at the house of George Smith, in said Precinct, and a Committee of five being chosen, viz: Johannes Jansen, Benjamin Smedes, Junior, Jacobus Bruyn, Johannes Hardenburg, Jun˙, and Lewis Gasherie, of whom Jacobus Bruyn, being chosen Chairman, when the Proceedings of the late Continental Congress were read, as also the aforesaid Pamphlet having been produced and read, it was unanimously

Resolved, 1. That it is the opinion of this meeting, that they most heartily approve of the Association, and acquiesce in all the other measures entered into by the late General Continental Congress, and that they will use every means in their power to render them effectual.

Resolved, 2. That the said Pamphlet is replete with falsehoods artfully calculated to impose on the illiterate and unthinking, in order to frustrate the Resolves of the Congress, and to destroy that union so necessary for the preservation of our American constitutional Liberty; therefore,

Resolved, 3. That the said Pamphlet, in detestation and abhorrence of such infamous publications, be now publickly burnt, and that the authors, publishers, and circulators of such performances be henceforth deemed the enemies of their country.

Which Resolves being publickly read, and unanimously approved, the above Pamphlet was burnt accordingly.

Ordered likewise, That a copy of the Proceedings of this meeting be transmitted to the Committee of Correspondence for this County.

JACOBUS BRUYN, Chairman.