A card : Jack Bowling and Tom Hatchway send their service (damn compliments) to the freeholders and freemen of the city of New-York ...

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : Whereas at a very considerable meeting of freeholders and freemen ... it was unanimously determined to preserve ... the peace of this city, by preventing a contested election for members to serve in the next General Assembly ...
Published: (1769)

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, Every good citizen must necessarily desire to preserve the peace of the city, and the freedom of elections ...
by: Scott, John Morin, 1730-1784
Published: (1769)

A Better creed than the last.

The Voter's new catechism.

A Seasonable advertisement to the freeholders and freemen of the city of New-York, and all the real friends to liberty, and lovers of their country.

To the freeholders, and freemen of the city and province of New-York : Gentlemen, The method of taking the suffrages of the people, for places of trust, by ballot, is so manifestly conducive to the preservation of liberty, that its opposer must necessarily be eyed with jealousy ...
Published: (1769)

New-York, January 4, 1769. To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : The appointment of two members only, by the various denominations of dissenters, who form a majority of the electors of this city and county, having been offered and not complied with; it was unanimously agreed, at a meeting of several hundred inhabitants, that Philip Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Theodorus Van Wyck, and John Morin Scott, Esqrs, be candidates at the ensuing election for representatives. The votes and interest of the freeholders and freemen are therefore requested for those gentlemen.

New-York, January 9, 1769 : The freeholders and freemen of this city and county, in the interest of Philip Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, John Morin Scott, and Theodorus Van Wyck, Esqrs, ... are requested to meet at the house of Mr. Van De Water ... tomorrow at 5 o'clock in afternoon.

To the freeholders and freemen, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, To pretend to prove what cannot be denied, would be wasting time to no purpose. That it seem'd to be the general voice of the inhabitants, to return the four late members to represent this city and county in the next General Assembly; is as true as the principle upon which that general voice was founded, is just, virtuous, and reasonable. ...

Observations on the reasons, lately published, for the malicious combination of several Presbyterian dissenters, and a few principal men of some other congregations, who have been led blindfold into an ungenerous confederacy, for opposing the re-election of the late worthy members of the General Assembly ... : To the freeholders and freemen, of the city and county of New-York.
Published: (1769)

To the freeholders, and freemen, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, The important advantages arising from electing representatives by ballot, are so evident, that it is matter of concern, that we find so salutary a measure openly opposed. ...

To the freeholders and freemen, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, From an earnest desire to avoid all occasion of heat and party spirit ... But, as Mr. Livingston, absolutely refused to stand as a candidate ... I take this opportunity of accepting the honour conferred on me. ...
by: Cruger, John, 1710-1791

New-York, January 6, 1769 : Advertisement, for summoning the freeholders and freemen, of the city and county of New-York, to nominate and elect four representatives to serve in the next General-Assembly.

To the free and independent electors of the city and county of New-York : A number of your fellow citizens ... respectfully beg leave to present the following list as the best calculated to represent the different classes of citizens, in the Hon. the House of Assembly ...
Published: (1789)

By His Excellency Richard Earle of Bellomont captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York. &c. A proclamation[.] : Whereas I have thought fit ... to call a General Assembly ... Given at New-York the seventh day of April 1698 ...

New-York, January 17, 1769. Advertisement : The members of the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons, in this city, in the interest of Philip Livingston, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Theodorus Van Wyck, and John Morin Scott, Esqrs, candidates at the ensuing election, are requested to meet at the house of Abraham De Lancy, on Friday next, at five o'clock ...

The Ballator : A proposal for election of members in General Assembly, by way of ballot: or, An effectual method of regulating elections. New-York, March 7, 1768.
Published: (1768)

To the freemen and freeholders of the city and county of New-York : The author of the 17 reasons for choosing lawyers assemblymen, inserted in last Monday's New-York gazette, begs that each man will give them a serious consideration ... : John A Nokes versus Tom A Stiles. Or queries against queries. ...

To the Honourable House of Representatives of this His Majesties province of New-York, in General Assembly met & convened : The humble petition of Samuell Staats, Johannes D'Peyster, Leonard Lewis and Abraham Gouverneur.

By the Honourable John Nanfan, Esq; His Majesties lieut. governour and commander in chief in and over the province of New-York ... A proclamation[.] : Whereas I have thought fit, upon mature deliberation, to dissolve the late Assembly ... Given at Fort William Henry the first day of June ... one thousand seven hundred and one.

To the public : Whereas advertisements were published yesterday to convene the inhabitants to take their sense on the expediency of a law to elect our representatives by ballot; and whereas it is suspected that the enemies of that salutary design, have destroyed many of the advertisements ... the meeting is postponed 'till the morrow morning ... the 29th ... at Liberty Pole. New-York, December 28, 1769.
Published: (1769)

To the people called freeholders, and freemen, of the "Dirty Corporation" of the city of New-York : Be it made known to you, that at 10' clock to-morrow morning ...
by: John, prince of Orange
Published: (1772)

To the people called freeholders and freemen, of the "Dirty Corporation" of the city of New-York : Be it made known to you, that at 10 clock to-morrow morning ...
by: John, prince of Orange
Published: (1772)

To the freeholders and freemen, of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, when the General-Assembly was dissolved, I intended to offer myself as a candidate, to serve you in the next General-Assembly, if there was a probability of a peaceable election ...
by: Livingston, Philip, 1716-1778

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : The following remarks on a piece with 17 queries, publish'd in Mr. Parker's Gazette of Monday February 15, 1768, are humbly recommended, by a sincere friend, &c. G.

O Liberty, thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! ...
by: Portius

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : The following remarks on a piece with 17 queries, publish'd in Mr. Parker's Gazette of Monday February 15, 1768, are humbly recommended, by a sincere friend, &c. G. : (Sequel of the remarks begun last week).

A copy of the poll list, of the election for representatives for the city and county of New-York : which election began on Monday the 23d day of January, and ended on Friday the 27th, of the same month, in the year of our Lord, MDCCLXIX. : Alphabetically made.

To the electors of New-York : Fellow-citizens, January 6, 1776. There are several important reformations, which ought to be made, for our future security ... The long duration of Parliament, is allowed by all to be the principal cause of its present corrupt state. ... Bribery and corruption at elections is also one great cause that is ruining the British nation. ...
by: Publicola
Published: (1776)

Vincit amor patrie. Virg : Some gentlemen, who are otherwise men of sense, argue after this manner, why should we trouble ourselves with politics? What can one man do against a torrent? ...
by: Fletcher, Andrew

To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York : My dear countrymen, A steady friend to your rights, I have ever been, and shall be always ready to warn you of danger, from every quarter. ...
by: Sentinel

Maxima libertatis custodia est, ut magna imperia diuturn[a] non sint, & temporis modus imponatur quibus juris impon[i] non potest. Mammerc. apud Liv.
by: Campbell, Alexander, active 1726-1732

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York, in communion with the Reformed Dutch Church : Beloved brethren, I am extremely unable to express the concern I feel ... that many of your respectful communion, are ... disunited in your choice of four worthy gentlemen to represent you in the next General Assembly ...
by: Old Dutchman
Published: (1769)

The Remonstrance of several of the representatives for several counties of the province of New-York being members of the present Assembly : Offered to the consideration of the House.

To His Excellency William Burnet, Esq; capt. general and governor in chief of the provinces of New-York, New-Jersey, and the territories thereon depending in America, and vice-admiral of the same, &c : May it please Your Excellency ...

To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York : This vindication, of the professors of the law, in answer to the remarks on the 17 queries, is humbly submitted by a sincere friend to the cause of liberty, and this colony. /
by: Querist