to meet at the City of New-York on this day; and was thereby authorized and appointed to join with the Deputies who should meet in such Convention, in the appointment of Delegates to represent this Colony in the next Continental Congress; and also to concur with the said Deputies in such other measures as might be thought necessary to promote the honour, happiness, and interest of this Colony.

Secondly. The same gentlemen, Deputies for Orange County, produced a Certificate signed by Daniel Everett, Precinct Clerk of the Precinct of Goshen, in the said County, certifying, that at an annual Town-Meeting held at Goshen, in and for the Precinct of Goshen, on Tuesday, the fourth day of April instant, it was moved, and unanimously voted in the affirmative, that Henry Wisner and Peter Clowes, Esquire’s, be appointed Deputies for the said Precinct of Goshen, to meet such other Deputies as should be appointed by other parts of the Colony, in a Provincial Convention, to be held in the City of New-York on this day, for the purpose of electing Delegates for the next Continental Congress, to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next.

Thirdly. The said Deputies for Orange County produced a Certificate subscribed by Thomas Out water, Town Clerk, setting forth that a meeting of the Freeholders of the Town of Orange, in Orange County, was held at the house of Jost Mabee, in the said Town, on the 17th day of April instant, agreeable to notice given, and request made by publick advertisements for that purpose. That the freeholders then and there assembled, took into consideration the necessity of their being duly and properly represented in the Provincial Convention, to be held at the City of New-York on this twentieth day of April, for the purpose of electing and appointing Delegates to represent this Colony of New-York in the next Continental Congress, to be held in the City of Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next. That the question was put, Whether the Freeholders there assembled should send a Deputy to represent the said Town of Orange at this Convention? And that the same was carried in the affirmative. And therein also setting forth and certifying, that it was thereupon voted and ordered, that John Herring, Esquire, should be a Deputy for the said Town of Orange, to represent the said Town in this Convention; and that he act and vote on behalf of the inhabitants thereof, in all such matters and things as should, by the said Convention, be taken into consideration.

Lastly. The said Deputies from Orange County produced a Certificate signed by Jesse Woodhull, Esquire, setting forth, that at an annual meeting of the Freeholders and inhabitants of the Precinct of Cornwall, in the said County, held at the house of John Brewster, in Blooming-grove, on the fourth day of April instant, the said Jesse Woodhull, Esquire, was chosen Moderator. That the said Freeholders then proceeded to take into consideration a Letter from the Committee of the City and County of New-York, signed by Isaac Low, their Chairman, recommending the choosing of Deputies for the several Counties in this Colony, to meet in Provincial Convention at the City of New-York, on this twentieth day of April, for the solo purpose of choosing Delegates to represent this Colony in the next Continental Congress, to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next ensuing. That it was then proposed to the said Freeholders, whether the subject-matter of the said Letter should be taken into consideration immediately, or postponed to another day; and that debates arising thereon, and the question being put, it was voted by a large majority, that the subject-matter of the said Letter should be considered immediately. That it was then proposed to the said Freeholders, whether a Deputy should be sent from that Precinct to this Convention, or not? And that debates arising thereon, and the question being put, it was carried in the affirmative by a large majority.

And the said Certificate sets forth and certifies, that Mr. Israel Seely was then and there chosen as one of the Deputies of that County for the purposes aforesaid.

And all the said Credentials and Certificates produced by the said Deputies for Orange County being read and approved of, and accepted by this Convention, are filed with the Secretary.

Colonel Lewis Morris, Mr. Stephen Ward, Samuel Drake, Esquire, John Thomas, Junior, Esquire, Robert Graham, Esquire, and Major Philip Van Cortlandt, the Deputies from Westchester County, produced Credentials bearing date at the White-Plains, in Westchester County, on the eleventh day of April instant, signed by Lewis Morris, Chairman, therein reciting and setting forth, that on the twenty-eighth day of March last past, a number of gentlemen therein particularly named, from different Districts in the County of Westchester, having received Letters from the Chairman of the Committee of the City and County of New-York relative to the appointment of Deputies for the County of Westchester, to this Convention, met at the White-Plains aforesaid, for the purpose of devising means to take the sense of the people of the County upon the subject. That they had sent Letters of Notification to the principal Freeholders in the different Towns and Districts in the County, acquainting them that they had then met to consider of the most proper method to obtain the sense of the Freeholders of the County upon the expediency of choosing Deputies to meet the Deputies of the other Counties, for the purpose of electing Delegates to represent this Colony in the Continental Congress, to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next; and therein recommending a general meeting of the Freeholders of the said County, to be held at the White-Plains, on Tuesday, the eleventh day of April instant, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the Court-House; and therein and thereby requesting each such principal Freeholder to give notice of the said meeting to all the Freeholders in his District, without exception, as those who did not appear and vote on that day, would be presumed to acquiesce in the sentiments of the majority of those who should vote. And therein also further setting forth and certifying, that such notices as aforesaid had been generally given and distributed; and that a very numerous body of the Freeholders of the County had assembled at the Court-House at the White-Plains, on the said eleventh day of April instant, in pursuance thereof, and chose Colonel Lewis Morris for their Chairman. That an inconsiderable number of persons, (among whom were many tenants not entitled to a vote,) with Isaac Wilkins, Esquire, and Colonel Philipse at their head, then appeared; and Mr. Wilkins, in their behalf, as he said, declared that they would not join in the business of the day, or have any thing to do with Deputies or Congresses; but that they came there for the sole purpose of protesting against such illegal and unconstitutional proceedings; after which they departed.

That the following question was then put to the Freeholders by the Chairman, viz: Whether they would appoint Deputies for the County of Westchester, to meet the Deputies of the other Counties at the City of New-York, on the twentieth day of April then instant, for the purpose of electing Delegates to represent this Colony in the General Congress to be held at Philadelphia, on the tenth day of May next? That the Freeholders then there met unanimously answered in the affirmative; and thereupon appointed the said Colonel Lewis Morris, Mr. Stephen Ward, Samuel Drake, Esquire, John Thomas, Junior, Esquire, Robert Graham, Esquire, and Major Philip Van Cortlandt, together with Colonel James Holmes and Jonathan Platt, Esquire, or the majority of them, to be the Deputies of the said County of Westchester, for the purposes aforesaid.

The same Credentials being read and heard, and accepted by this Convention, are now filed with the Secretary.

The Deputies for King’s County produced here proceedings of a meeting of the several Committees chosen by the Freeholders of the Townships of Flatbush, Brook-land, Bushwick, New-Utrecht, and Gravcsend, held at the County Hall, in Flatbush, in King’s County, on the fifteenth day of April instant, for the purpose of choosing Deputies to meet with the Deputies from the other Counties, at New-York, on the twentieth day of April instant, to choose Delegates to attend the Continental Congress, to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May next. The said proceedings, certified by Abraham Van Ranst, Clerk to the said several large and respectable Committees