To the freeholders & freemen of the city and county of New-York. : Gentlemen, Many arts have been used to misrepresent to you the conduct of your Committee, and the business of next Wednesday, which will be simply this; to elect eleven deputies, who are to meet in this city on a day to be agreed on, with the deputies that will be chosen by the other counties, for the sole purpose of chusing out of all those deputies, delegates to represent this colony in the next Congress ...

Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1775-1783

[New York]

[John Holt]

1775-03-14
[1775]

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 24 x 18 cm

Supporting the Committee of Sixty’s plan for the election of representatives to a provincial congress for appointing delegates to the Continental Congress. Signed and dated: A friend to the Congress. March 14th, 1775. Imprint from Evans. References: Evans 14494.

Broadsides -- SY1775 no.83
53301_SY1775_83.tif

Elections--New York (State)--New York

Committee of Observation (New York, N.Y.)
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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