To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York. : Fellow-citizens, As is well known, that you are determined upon sending delegates to the next Congress ... Mr. Henry Remsen, accordingly moved ... there should also be held a poll, for such as chose to vote for five delegates for this city separately ..., page 2

Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1775-1783

[New York]

1775-01-01
[1775]

1 sheet (2 p.) ; 40 x 26 cm

Questions the Committee of Sixty’s plan for the election of representatives to a provincial congress for appointing delegates to the Continental Congress. Signed on p. 2: A freeman. References: Evans 14493.

Broadsides -- SY1775 no.21
91785d_SY1775_21_verso.tif

Remsen, Henry, 1736-1792

Committee of Observation (New York, N.Y.)
New York (Colony). Provincial Congress (1775-1776)
New York (Colony). Provincial Congress--Elections, 1775
United States. Continental Congress--Elections, 1775

New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1783

broadsides (notices)

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