To the free and respectable mechanicks, and other inhabitants of the city and county of New-York : In this perilous time, when the iron hand of tyranny is held over our heads ...

To the inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York : Fathers, brethren, and fellow countrymen, In this alarming crisis, of our public affairs, it is the incumbent duty of every well wisher to the rights and privileges of this much injured country ...
by: Citizen

To the worthy and industrious mechanicks of this state : Fellow citizens!!! In all countries, it is no uncommon practice for men, grasping at power, to call first upon the mechanicks, and endeavour to use them as mere ladders to their ungovernable ambition. ...
by: Friend to mechanicks

To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, The favourable sentiments many of you were pleased to entertain of me, in nominating me one of your deputies for this city and county, lay me under great obligations ...
by: McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786
Published: (1774)

To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York : My dear countrymen, There can be nothing more fatal to us than to bring our representation into contempt. ...
by: Watchman
Published: (1776)

To the friends of American liberty : Gentlemen. As Mr John Thurman, declared, yesterday, on the Coffee-House Bridge ...

To the friends of American liberty : Gentlemen. As Mr. John Thurman, declared, yesterday, on the Coffee House Bridge ...

To the free-holders of New-town : My friends and fellow-townsmen! We are now called upon to oppose the encroachments, which, for some time past, have been made upon our rights and liberty. ...
by: New-town free-holder
Published: (1775)

To the freemen and freeholders of the city and county of New-York : Friends and fellow citizens, From the prudence of your councils, and the wisdom of your determinations, you have heretofore deservedly acquired the approbation of the wise and the prudent. ...
by: Thurman, John

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)

To the respectable public : We conceive the sense of our fellow citizens, relative to the delegates to represent them at the proposed congress ... remains so uncertain ...
by: Alsop, John, 1724-1794

To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York : Fellow citizens, Be not deceived by sounds. ...
by: Foe to dissention
Published: (1776)

To the very learned, loquacious, rhetorical, oratorical, disputative, flexible, incomprehensible, impenetrable, pathetic and irresistably eloquent chairman : A certain John Thurman who stiles himself chairman of a certain ministerial junto ...
by: Tory

New-York, Committee-chamber, 16th March, 1775 : Gentlemen, The late Congress having deemed it expedient, that, in the present critical state of American affairs, another should be held at Philadelphia ...

To the free-holders of New-town : My friends and fellow-townsmen! We are now called upon to oppose the encroachments, which, for some time past, have been made upon our rights and liberty. ...
by: New-town free-holder
Published: (1775)

To the freemen and freeholders, of the city and county of New-York : Friends and fellow-citizens, When I consider the many arduous, expensive, and perilous, struggles that you have made ...
by: Remembrancer
Published: (1775)

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

To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York : Gentlemen, You will be called together on Thursday next, to meet at the city-hall, at twelve o'clock, to confirm the nomination of delegates, to represent this city and county in a general congress ...
by: Another citizen
Published: (1774)

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. ...

To the free-holders and free-men of the city, and county of New-York : Dear countrymen, Many and great are the privileges you enjoy under the happy British constitution ...
by: Trueblue, Tom

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)

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.

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 electors of the city of New-York : Friends and fellow citizens! That the acts of the Legislature may faithfully correspond with the interest and sentiments of the society at large ...
by: Citizen

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

Circular. To the free and independent electors of the several counties in the state of New-York : Friends and fellow countrymen, Combined in a cause which involves the rights and happiness, not only of this generation but of the most remote posterity ...
Published: (1792)

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)

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 ... 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 ...
by: Friend to the Congress

To the citizens of New-York : Fellow-citizens, December 30, 1775. The design of electing a new Assembly at this time, is plainly to distract your attention. ...
by: Poor man
Published: (1775)

Committee-chamber, New-York, April 9, 1776 : Whereas the late Provincial Congress of the colony of New-York, by their resolve of the twelfth of March last, did order a new election of deputies to represent this province in Provincial Congress, for the ensuing year: the freemen and freeholders, and such other inhabitants of the city and county of New-York ... are therefore requested to meet ... to elect, by plurality of voices, twenty-one deputies ...

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.

State of New-York, in Senate, 16th February, 1791 : Resolved, (if the honorable the Assembly concur herein,) that the printer to this state shall ... print three hundred copas printed], 18th 1791 Resolved, that this house do concur ...

New-York, January 8, 1770 : All the real friends of liberty, and our happy Constitution, having with the greatest regret, beheld at several of our late elections, the most infamous bribery and corruption ...
Published: (1770)

To the freeholders and freemen of New-York : My dear countrymen, December 29, 1775. I have good reason to assure you that there is a scheme in agitation to surprise and confound you in a matter of the last importance--the election of members for a new Assembly. ...
by: Citizen
Published: (1775)

To the free electors of Kings County : Having seen a handbill, signed "A Kings County farmer," containing some observations on my conduct, and a slanderous accusation against the governor and Council of Appointment, I deem it necessary to state a few facts ...
by: Riggs, Caleb S. (Caleb Smith), 1756-1825
Published: (1800)

The Following are recommended as proper persons to represent the city and county of New-York, in Provincial Congress. The election will commence on Tuesday next, being the 16th of April, 1776.
Published: (1776)

The Following are recommended as proper persons to represent the city and county of New-York, in Provincial Congress. The election will commence on Tuesday next, being the 16th of April, 1776.
Published: (1776)