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** Dr. Evan Jones had his residence in New Windsor. He died about 1763. leaving sons John and Thomas. The latter was a physician in practice in New York city, from which place he returned to Matthewsfield in 1777. He was ap- pointed member of the State Senate from New York, under the first constitution (1777), but resigned in consequence of failing health .- Journal Prov. Con., 11, 440.
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of Jesse Woodhull, in 1758 .** He resided in the city of New York, during the latter part of his life, *** and died there. His daughter, Catalina, married Jonathan Brooks. David (3), married Sarah Sey- mour in 1758, by whom he had ten children. He succeeded his father as Clerk of the County of Orange (1763), but subsequently removed to New York, of which city he was appointed Mayor, by Governor Tryon. in 1776. Soon after his appointment, he was arrested by the Commit tee of Safety, charged with conduct inimical to the cause of Americar. Independence, and sent for safe keeping to Hartford, Conn. James (2), married Hannah Strong, in 1762. He was the father of General Vin- cent Matthews, of Rochester (born in Orange County in June, 1766; died June 23, 1846), who served in the State Senate, and in Congress. and was regarded, at the time of his death, as the father of the bar of western New York. Vincent and his sons David and Fletcher, and his grandson, Vincent, were members of the bar of Orange County. The family was a remarkable one in many respects.
General Vincent Matthews, born Orange County, 1766; died Roches- ter, 1846; m Juliana Strong, born 1773, died Rochester, 1850; daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Amy (Brewster) Strong, of Blooming Grove. Orange County, N. Y., Vincent was a son of James Matthews, born at Matthewsfield (Blooming Grove), 1742; died at Ebserion, 1816; married Hannah Strong, born 1742, daughter of Selah and Hannah (Woodhull) Strong. Born, 1722, died 1776; Vincent (2), son of Vincent Matthews (1), born 1699, died at New York, 1784. m. Catalina Abell, born, 1698, daughter of John Abell ; born 1667. died 1711, Mayor of Albany, 1694-'5.
Fletcher Matthews, of New York-During the war he was pro- ceeded against by the Commissioners appointed to the charge of per- sons who adhered to the crown, and was ordered to be sent within the British lines. But Governor Clinton having so far interfered with the decision as to detain him for the purpose of exchange, he was suffered to remain in the country without interruption.
Sabrine .- He was not a resident of New York city, but of Orange County, living near the home of Governor Clinton, and an early neigh- borhood associate, and under Governor Clinton's protection he lived and died at Matthewsfield.
** Fletcher Matthews' residence was in the old town of New Windsor prior to his removal to New York. The property was subsequently occupied by his son- in-law, Jonathan Brooks.
*** Civil list. Eager's Orange Co., 538.
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JOHN ALSOP.
John Alsop was the son of Richard Alsop, who died at Newton, L. I., October, 1718, aged about fifty-eight years. He married December,. 1718, Abigail, daughter of Joseph Sackett. He adopted the profes- sion of law; located at New Windsor in 1724-'5, and was admit- ted to practice in the courts of Orange County in 1734. He removed to New York in 1749, and there continued his legal pursuits until his death, which occurred April 8, 1761, aged 64 years. He left two sons, John, Jr., and Richard, and two daughters, Euphemia and Frances. Euphemia married Thos. Stevenson ; Frances died single. John, Jr., became eminent as a politician, represented the city of New York in the Provincial Con- vention, and was a delegate to the first Continental Congress in 1774. Although a whig, in the early part of the controversy with the Mother
country, he was opposed to separation from the crown, and hence when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, he resigned his seat in Con· gress. He died November 22, 1794, leaving one child, Mary, who mar- ried the distinguished Rufus King, and was the mother of the late Hon. John A. King. Governor George Clinton and John Alsop, Jr., wer? born almost side by side, in the town of New Windsor; served together in the historical Continental Congress, and had the latter been as fort11- nate in his political associations as the former, he would have left be hind him a completed record.
JOSEPH SACKETT.
Joseph Sackett and Joseph Sackett, Jr., whose names are more or less identified with the history of the town, were natives of New- town, L. I .* Joseph, Jr., was the fourth of that name, and also the fourth son of his father. He married Millicent, daughter of Samuel Clowse, of Jamaica, and after doing business in New York as a mer- chant for some years, removed to New Windsor prior to the organiza- tion of the township, where he owned a "small piece of land between the land of John Alsop on the north, and the land of Thomas Ellison on the south," on which he established a store and a wharf, and from which he proposed to run a ferry to Fishkill in 1742, but failed to obtain a charter. "Sackett's Alley," in the village of New Windsor, was so called from his use and possession.
*Riker's Annual of Newtown.
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SAMUEL BREWSTER.
Samuel Brewster, who became a resident of the town of New Wind- sor about 1743, was the son of Timothy (2), son of Timothy (1), who was the son of Nathaniel Brewster,* who was the son of Jonathan Brewster, son of Elder William Brewster, of Plymouth colony, who em barked from England on the Mayflower, September 6, 1620, and died at Duxbury, Mass., in 1644. On his removal to New Windsor he was accompanied by his brother, Henry, who, with himself, formed two of sixteen proprietors of the "Township of New Windsor" (now the vi !- iage of New Windsor), in 1749. He established a saw mill at the foot of Forge-hill, now in the village of Moodna, and subsequently a forge and anchorage, which he conducted for several years, and at which he constructed in part the obstructions to the navigations of the Hudson dur- ing the war of the Revolution. His early residences would seem to have been in New Windsor village and later at Moodna (then Orangeville). In 1763 he erected a stone house on the Forge-hill road, a short dis- tance north of Temple Hill, now or lately on the farm of the late Francis Weygant. A stone in the north gable bears the initials of his name and date. It is presumed that it was erected for his son Timothy, who re- moved to Woodbridge, N. J., after the Revolution. The house is marked on the DeWitt Map of the cantonment of the army in 1783, and has re- mained as an unmistakable landmark. From his first advent in the town he seems to have taken the rank of a man of substantial character and to have maintained it. On the organization of the Presbyterian Church of New Windsor, September 14, 1764, he was chosen one of its Elders, and in 1773, served as Trustee of the united congregations of Bethlehem and New Windsor for the Murderer's Creek district and also for the New Windsor district. In 1763. he was one of the Assessors of the town. He was active in promoting the success of the Revolution, and filled the post of Chairman of the Committee of Safety of the town during the entire period, and served as a member of the Provincial Con- vention, 1775-6, and of the Committee of Safety of that body in which was vested all authority during the recess of the Convention. His more pressing duties in the construction of the river obstructions compelled his retirement in 1777. He died February 10, 1802, in his 83d year, and his wife, Mary Wood, died February 3d, 1807, in her 85th year
*Webster in his "History of Presbyterianism in America," writes: "Brook haven, L. I., was settled from Boston, in 1655. For thirty-five years the town had for its minister Nathaniel Brewster, the grandson of the Ruling Elder of the Pil . grim Church of Plymouth."
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Their children were: I. Samuel; 2. Timothy; 3. Hannah (married1
DuBois) ; 4. Abigail (married Jonas Williams) ; 5. Susanna (married Moores)-of whom Samuel (1), settled in Rock- land (then Orange) County, and, was State Senator in 1805. (See History Rockland County). Timothy (2), was born in New Windsor, November 3, 1746; married Phebe Wood, born February 17, 1754; re- moved to Basking Ridge, N. J., near the close of the Revolution, and from thence to Woodbridge, N. J., where he occupied a large tract of land bordering oon Staten Island Sound, now or lately in the possession of one branch of his descendants. His children were:
I. Samuel, (2), born July 12, 1775; married Jane Wood, and had Phebe, Benjamin, Timothy, Jonas W., Harriet,* Mary, Amy Maria, mar- tied Jesse Smith Woodhull, died September 30, 1824, aged 27 years, and one whose name has not been learned.
2. John, born August 15, 1777; died August 27, 1822; married, February 27, 1797, Nancy, daughter of James Meeker. (See Munsell's American Ancestry.
3. Jonas W., born February 28, 1780-had one son and two daugh. t:rs-names not ascertained.
4. Mary, born April 7, 1782, married Noe, had Catharine and Albert, the latter a well-known resident of Newburgh.
5. Nathaniel, born October 27, 1786, married, first, Keziah O Smedes, had William C. (known as Captain William C. Brewster, of Coldenham), Nathaniel Augustus, and Susan Ann, (Mrs. George C. Weeks). His first wife died April 9, 1853, and he married second, Mary Ann Bowne, without issue. Nathaniel Brewster removed from Woodbridge to Orange County about 1812, and located on a farm in the town of Montgomery. In 1823, he was elected an elder of Goodwill Church, in which office he remained until his death in 1869.
6. Timothy, born April 22, 1789, married Juliet Wood, and han Cordelia, Mary (Mrs. Martine), Harriet, Eugene A., ** and Catharine ---
*Harriet, daughter of Samuel (2) married Andrew J. Callwell, of Salisbury Mills, by whom she had three daughters and two sons; of whom Samuel Brewster and Richard were survivors in 1885. Her father was State Senator from the Middle District 1805. 6, 7, 8. See Civil List; also Hammond's Political History. 207, etc.
** Eugene A. Brewster was born in New York city April 13. 1827, the family re- moving to Newburgh when he was three years old. Thrown upon his own re- sources he was an earnest student, and early qualified for the position of a sub- ordinate instructor in the Newburgh High School, where he was employed for two years. In August, 1843, he entered the office of the late Hon. John W. Brown as a student and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He remained in Judge Brown's office until that gentleman took his seat as Judge of the Supreme Court in January, 1850. He then united in partnership with Nathan Reeve, under the
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residents of Newburgh. Phebe Wood, first wife of Timothy (1), died May 10, 1792, aged 38 years. By his second wife he had :
7. George Y., born December 28, 1794, married Elizabeth - had Catharine, born July 23. 1821; Ezra M., born January 28, 1823; Walter, born October 11, 1824; Sarah E., born Septemka- .. . 826; Albert, born November 18, 1830.
8. James, born in 1798, died in infancy.
Abigail, daughter of Samuel Brewster ( I), who married, January 13, 1779, Jonas Williams, of Moodna, had five daughters: I. Mary, who married Jacob Drake, of New York; 2. Anne, who married John Nicoll, of New Windsor ; 3. Helen, who married Doctor J. B. Johnes, of Mor- ristown, N. J .; 4. Susan E., who married Peter Roe,* of New Windsor ; and 5. Abigail, who married Samuel Oakley, of New York. Her sons were: Richard and Samuel Williams, the latter for several years a mer - chant in Newburgh and the father of Colonel George A. Williams, U. S. A., Charles E. Williams, Jonas William and Mrs. Robert A. Forsyth. William, Jr., Captain 56th Regiment, killed at Fair Oaks. Mrs. Abigai! (Brewster) Williams died December 22, 1804.
Anne Williams, daughter of Jonas and Abigail ( Brewster) Williams, born December 22, 1785, died August 29, 1861, married John Nicoll. October 29, 1802.
Ruth Nicoll, daughter of Anne and Jonas Williams, born July 12, 1810, died July 9th, 1885, married September 13, 1831, John Richard Coldwell-children, William, John Nicoll, Richard, Charles. Mary, James Parks.
TIMOTHY BREWSTER.
Timothy Brewster, brother of Samuel Brewster, located in Cornwall near Murderer's Creek, where, in 1765, he was chosen, at Precinct meet - ing, one of Overseers of Roads for the "water-side" district. He mar- ried Elizabeth, third daughter of Nathan Clark, Jr., and Abigail Mills his wife. She was born in Bedford, Westchester County, N. Y., about 174I, and married at Cornwall, N. Y., sometime prior to 1766, and ät
firm name of Reeve & Brewster, which continued for five years, at the expiration of which time he opened an office and has since conducted a large legal business. ranking among the most competent in his profession. He was one of the original members of the Almshouse Commission, and has also served with credit as a member of the Board of Education. He married in 1859, Anna W., daughter of Rev. John Brown, D. D.
*See Roe Family in History of Newburgh. Rev. E. P. Roe was one of her descendants.
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that date herself and husband united by profession with the Presbyterian Church at its organization, May 5th, of that year, as appears by the rec- ords of that church. The children of Timothy Brewster and Elizabeth, his wife, were Nathan, Isaac, Jacob, Phebe (married John Canfield), and Sarah (married a Butterworth)-(Genealogy of Samuel Clark, Sr.). Nathan Clark, Sr. was one of the settlers at Rippowanis, now Stamford. Conn., in 1646. The following entries appear in New Windsor Church records :
"1778, Nov. 30-Married-Timothy Brewster and Sarila Wood, widow, Cornwall Precinct.
"1776, March I-Baptised-Elizabeth, daughter to Timothy Brew- ster, Senior."
John and Henry Brewster, also brothers (?) of Samuel, settled in the Blooming Grove district and founded families.
ROBERT BOYD.
The Boyds of New Windsor, Robert and Robert, Jr., were natives of Scotland and blacksmiths by occupation. Robert, Sr. was a pur- chaser on the McIntosh patent, prior to 1751. Robert, Jr., obtained front Nathan Smith (Jan. 14, 1761 lot No. 51, in the village of New Windsor, and at a later period, a farm of one hundred acres on the northeast cor- ner of the Chambers patent. He was especially active in local affairs, and was Chairman of the County Committee of Ulster in 1775-'76, and of the Committe of Safety of his town. From 1779 to 1781 he was a Member of the Legislature. In 1775 he established a forge, near what is now Walsh's paper mills, for the manufacture of gun-barrels, bayonets etc., for which he had a contract from the Revolutionary authorities of the state. He was one of the founders of the Associate Reformed Church of Newburgh in 1798, and one of its incorporators in 1803. The property which he occupied for many years was in the vicinity of his mill, on the road leading from Newburgh to New Windsor, and has been known in later years as the Havemeyer place. He died October 29, 1804, aged 70 years. His father died February 15, 1786, aged 83 years. Who his children were, besides Robert, Jr., has not been ascer- tained .* Robert, Jr. left two sons, Samuel and Nathaniel, and one daugh- ter, Janet. The latter married Doctor Baltus L. Van Kleeck, for many years an esteemed physician of Newburgh. The late Rev. R. B. Van Kleeck, of the Episcopal Church, was her son.
*George Boyd, born 1788, died 1850, removed to Philadelphia, married Eliza- beth Livingston,-Colgate's American Ancestors.
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NATHAN SMITH.
Few of the early settlers of the town were more active in its affairs than Nathan Smith .* The date of his settlement was as early as 1768. as his name then appears in the list of town officers. It is said that he was born in the town of Huntington, L. I., and that his father was & Presbyterian minister, who left England on account of religious perse. cution, and who married a Miss Mowbray of Long Island, by whom lie had two sons and two daughters, some of whose descendants are still living on the south side of Long Island. Nathan, his youngest son. married at Paramus, N. J., Susan McIntosh, a daughter or grand-daugh - ter of Phineas McIntosh, one of the early patent holders in New Wind- sor, upon whose patent he settled and where he established a fulling mill, a grist mill, and a store, giving to his place the title of Hunting- Grove. He continued his residence here until a year before his death, when he exchanged it for a farm two miles west of the then village of Newburgh. He was Supervisor of New Windsor from 1776 to 1780. and Member of the Committee of safety of the town. From 1777 to £793 he was one of the representatives in the Assembly from Ulster County, with the exception of two terms. In 1793 he was appointed First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of Ulster County, and held that office at the time of his death. In September, 1798, he was in New York visiting Governor Clinton and friends, apparently in his usual health. On his way to the sloop on which he was to take passage for Newburgh, he was attacked by yellow fever and conveyed to the hospital, where he died. At the time of his death he was fifty-two years of age. He left seven children: 1. Susan, married William W. Sackett, resided in New Windsor and Newburgh, but ultimately settled in Sullivan County ; 2. Charles F., a lawyer, settled at Clyde, N. Y .; 3. Augustus, a lawyer, died unmarried; 4. Mowbray, married and removed to south- ern Virginia; 5. Nathan, died unmarried; 6. Fell. died unmarried ; 7.
*There were two persons of this name in the town. The first Nathan was the purchaser from John Chambers, in 1758, of that portion of the Chambers and Sutherland patent held by William Chambers, one of the patentees, and also part of the Ingoldsby patent and one half of lot No. I, of the German patent. In the deed to him he is described as a "blacksmith of Kingston." He was one of the proprietors of the Township of New Windsor, where he sold lot No. 51, to "Rob- ert Boyd, blacksmith of the city of New York." January 14, 1761. He is not known to have been in any way connected with the person referred to in this sketch.
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Elizabeth, married David Hunter,* and died in 1854. Her oldest son, C. F. Hunter, is now (1878) President of the People's Bank, of New York city. He has five children. A younger son, E. M. Hunter, U. S. Commissioner, at Milwaukee, Wis., died in 1877. Her daughters, Cor- nelia B. and Susan F., married (first and second) T. Van Wyck Brink- Erhoff, of Hopewell, Dutchess Co. Judge Smith is described as of fine personal appearance, and mild and gentle disposition. He had a legal education, and was in every respect qualified for the official stations to which he was called, and was a trusted friend and supporter of New York's first governor, George Clinton.
*David Hunter was a widower when he married Miss Smith. His first wife was a daughter of Johannes Miller, of Montgomery, by whom he had two child. dren, Emeline and Johannes M. Emeline married Dr. Samuel Dimmick, of Sullivan County, father of Samuel E. Dimmick of Newburgh. He was a son of James Hunter, and in his day was a man of considerable prominence. In company with Daniel Sloan he conducted a large lumber, grocery and mercantile business in Bloomingburgh.
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CHAPTER X
CIVIL LIST.
1763 .- Joseph Belknap, Clerk; George Harris, Supervisor; Samuel Brewster, James Humphrey and George Denniston, Assessors; Alexander Denniston, Constable and Collector; Judah Harlow and Capt. James Clinton, Overseers of the Roads; David Crawford and John Nicoll, Overseers of the Poor; An- drew Crawford and William Lawrence, Fence Viewers. Election at the home of Judah Harlow.
1764-Joseph Belknap, Clerk; Isaac Hodge, Supervisor; John Nicoll, Joseph Bel- knap and David Humphrey, Assessors; Hezekiah White, Constable and Col- lector ; Charles McCallister, Deputy Constable; Hezekiah White, Leonard Nic- oll, John Arthur and Silas Wood, Overseers of the Roads; John Yelverton, and Robert Carscaden, Overseers of the Poor; Andrew Crawford and Will- iam Lawrence, Fence Viewers. Election at the house of Joseph Belknap, 1764 to '68.
1765-Joseph Belknap, Clerk; Capt. James Clinton, Supervisor; John Nicoll, Joseph Belknap and David Humphrey, Assessors; Edward Falls, Constable and Collector; Alexander Falls and Robert Buchanan, Security for Collector; Silas Wood, Overseer of the Roads; Jonathan Parshal and Hezekiah White, Overseers of the Poor; Moses Fowler and John Nicholson, Fence Viewers.
1766-Joseph Belknap, Clerk; Isaac Nicoll, Supervisor; John Nicoll, Joseph Bel- knap, David Humphrey, Assessors; William Edmonston, Constable and Col .. lector; Moses Fowler, George Denniston, Thomas King, Francis Mandeville, Overseers of the Roads; Moses Fowler and John Nicholson, Fence Viewers; John Monell and Robert Boyd, Overseers of the Poor.
1767-Joseph Belknap, Clerk; Isaac Nicoll. Supervisor; John Nicoll, David Hum- phrey, Joseph Belknap, Assessors; William Edmonston, Constable and Col- lector; Theophilus Corwin, Nathaniel Boyd, Overseers of the Poor; James Jackson, James Neely, John Nicholson, Overseers of Roads; John Nicholson, Isaac Nicoll, Fence Viewers.
1768-Joseph Belknap, Clerk; John Ellison, Supervisor; George Denniston, John Nicholson and Hezekiah White, Assessors; William Edmonston, Constable and Collector; Arthur Beatty and Nathan Smith, Overseers of Poor; Robert Boyd, Joseph Belknap, James Jackson, Overseers of Roads; Patrick Mc- Claughry and Judah Harlow, Fence Viewers.
1769-James Clinton, Clerk; John Ellison, Supervisor; George Denniston, John Nicholson, Hezekiah White, Assessors; Reuben Weed, Constable and Col- lector; Samuel Brewster and Samuel Sly, Overseers of the Poor; John Gal- loway, James Denniston, Theophilus Corwin, Samuel Arthur, Overseers of Roads; Judah Harlow and James Humphrey, Fence Viewers. Election at the house of Neal McArthur, 1769 to '85.
1770-James Clinton, Clerk; John Ellison, Supervisor; Hezekiah White, James Denniston, David Humphrey, Assessors; Nathan Smith, Constable and Col-
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lector; Judah Harlow and Timothy Mills, Overseers of the Poor; James Mc- Claughry, George Clinton and Patrick McClaughry, Commissioners of the Roads; Samuel Logan, William Edmonston, Alexander Falls, Samuel Sly, Overseers of Roads; Walter McMichael and Theophilus Corwin, Fence Viewers.
1771-James Clinton, Clerk, William Jackson, Supervisor; Hezekiah White, James Denniston, James McClaughry, Assessors; Nathan Smith, Collector and Constable; Leonard Nicoll, James Buchanan, Overseers of the Poor; James McClaughry, Patrick McClaughry, James Clinton, Commissioners of the Roads; Isaac Schultz, Edward Neely, Fence Viewers; James Jackson, Na- thaniel Liscounb, Alexander Falls, Jr., Samuel Sly, Overseers of the Poor.
1772-James Clinton, Clerk; John Ellison, Supervisor: John Nicoll, John Nichol- son and Joseph Belknap, Assessors; Nathan Smith, Constable and Collector; (Timothy Mills and Thos. Johnson his securities). David Holladay. John Gal- loway, Overseers of the Poor; George Denniston; James Faulkner, John Nicoll, Road Commissioners ; Robert Boyd, Alexander Falls, Samuel Sly, William Edmonston, Francis Mandeville, Overseers of Roads; James Dunlap, William Rider, Fence Viewers.
1773-James Clinton. Clerk; John Ellison, Supervisor; John Nicoll, John Nichol- son, Joseph Belknap, Assessors; George Coleman, Collector and Constable; Isaac Schultz and James Neely, Overseers of the Poor; Judah Harlow, Ed- ward Neely, Fence Viewers; James Dunlap, Samuel Arthur, Leonard Nicoll. Thomas Belknap, Samuel Sly, Overseers of Roads.
1774-James Clinton, Clerk; John Ellison, Supervisor; John Nicholson, John Nicoll, Joseph Belknap, Assessors; Robert Boyd, Robert Stewart, Overseers of the Poor; Theophilus Corwin. Archibald Beatty, Fence Viewers; Judah Harlow, Leonard Nicoll, Gilbert Peet, Isaac Belknap, James McClaughry, Samuel Sly, Overseers of Roads.
1775-James Clinton, Clerk; John Nicholson, Supervisor; John Nicoll. Josepn Belknap John Nicholson, Assessors; James Hays, Constable and Collector ; Silas White, Henry MacNeely, Overseers of the Poor; David Halliday, John Beatty, Fence Viewers: Isaac Schultz, John Dean, Benjamin Case, Silas Wood, James McClaughry, Nathaniel Boyd, Overseers of Roads.
Committee of Safety-"At a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the precinct of New Windsor, in the county of Ulster, this eighth day of May, 1775, for the purpose of choosing a committee and signing an association for the more firm union of the inhabitants in pursuing measures for their com- mon safety-then proceeded to nominate and elect the following persons to be a Standing Committee until the next precinct meeting: Col. James Clinton, Capt. James McClaughry, John Nicoll, Esq., John Nicholson, Esq., Nathan Smith Esq., Robert Boyd, Jr., Samuel Brewster, Samuel Sly, Samuel Logan. "Col. James Clinton, Capt. James McClaughry and John Nicoll, Esq., were named as delegates to represent the precinct in a convention to be held at the house of Mrs. Ann DuBois, Marlborough, to appoint delegates to the Provincial Convention at New York, May 25th."-Town Record.
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