To the independent electors, of the city and county of Albany : At a public meeting of a number of the anti-Federalists ... the following persons were unanimously nominated to represent the city and county in convention and Assembly. ...

New-York, 12th of April, 1788 : Friends and countrymen, From a sincere attachment to yourselves, and a regard to our mutual interest, we are induced to apprize you of our opinions on a subject, which we view as of the most essential consequences to both. Your countrymen in New-York, in union of sentiment with the true friends of America, have long lamented the want of a firm, national government ...
Published: (1788)

At a meeting of a number of freeholders from the towns of Watervliet, Bern and Bethlehem, held at ... Albany, on the 18th day of April, 1799 : Resolved ... that the following candidates be recommended to the electors of the city and county of Albany, at the ensuing election, for senators and members of Assembly, viz. ...
Published: (1799)

To the electors of the sothern [as printed] district : Fellow-citizens, At a very numerous and respectable meeting, held in this city, on the 8th day of April ... it was unanimously agreed, to support the following candidates for senators, at the ensuing election, to wit. Aaron Burr ... Abel Smith ... John Smith ... and John Schenck ... We were at the same time appointed a committee, to communicate this nomination to you ...
Published: (1796)

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)

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 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)

Albany, January 26, 1789. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in this city, to his friend in New-York.

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)

At a meeting of a number of freeholders of the city of Albany, at Wendell's Hotel, on Saturday the 12th day of April, 1800. ... Robert Yates, Esq. being nominated a candidate to be chosen as senator for the eastern district ... it was thereupon unanimously resolved, that he be supported by this meeting ...
Published: (1800)

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

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 ...

At a meeting of a number of the freemen and freeholders of the city and county of New-York, at the house of Mrs. Vandewater's on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of nominating persons to represent them in the next General Assembly : it was agreed by a majority to said company that Philip Livingston, John Alsop, John Jay, and Alexander M'Dougall, be, and are recommended to the public as sufficient men for that purpose ...
Published: (1776)

--Once more--for the--liberties of the people of America : The present election is important--it may give peace or war to this state, and, perhaps, to the union.--The sons of liberty ... do therefore invite all ... to vote for the following nomination, as members of the legislature ...
Published: (1788)

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)

Delegate selection for the 1996 Democratic and Republican national conventions : New York /
by: Coleman, Kevin J.
Published: (1996)

Schenectady, April 13th, 1799 : In committee, present, Abraham Oothout, John Glen, Nicholas Veeder, Lawrence Van Boskerk, Stephen N. Bayard, John Peek. : Sir, It is the opinion of a great many of the respectable electors of the city of Schenectady in particular, and of the county of Albany in general, that a change in the representation from this city in the House of Assembly of the state, is essentially necessary ...
Published: (1799)

To the moderate and independent electors of Dutchess : At a meeting of about one hundred and fifty electors from twelve towns in the county of Dutchess ... the following resolutions were maturely considered and adopted. ...

Supplement extraordinary to the Independent journal. Monday, July 28, 1788 : On Saturday evening about 9 o'clock arrived the joyful tidings of the adoption of the new Constitution, at Poughkeepsie, on Friday, July 25 ...

At a meeting of a number of freeholders of the city of Albany, at Wendell's Hotel, on Saturday the 12th day of April, 1800. ... Robert Yates and Stephen Lush, Esqrs. being nominated candidates to be chosen as senators for the eastern district ... it was thereupon unanimously resolved, that they be supported by this meeting ...
Published: (1800)

(Circular.) : Sir, We were appointed a committee by a numerous and respectable meeting of the electors of this county, held on the 28th ultimo, to communicate to you their nomination of a senator in this district for the next general election.
Published: (1794)

Debate in the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York on the proposal to deny to the Legislature the power to grant privilege or immunity, 1915.
Published: (1918)

To the Whig mechanicks of the city and county of New-York : My friends and fellow-citizens! You have in the course of the week, been addressed by a number of writers ... respecting the ensuing election for senators and assembly-men ...
by: Battered soldier
Published: (1783)

To all true Whigs, and particularly to such as are independent electors of the city and county of New York : Gentlemen, The conduct of several of the magistrates of this city, having, for a considerable time been so notoriously inimical and unfriendly to the liberties of this country, and diametrically opposite to the sentiments of a number of their constituents; who ... have agreed to choose the undermentioned gentlemen as guardians of their city liberties ...
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 ...

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)

Report of the debates and proceedings of the convention for the revision of the constitution of the state of New York, 1846 /
Published: (1846)

At a numerous meeting of committees and electors, from ten towns in the county of Washington, at Hartford, on the 22d of Aril [as printed], 1800, Alexander Webster, Esq. chairman ... the following nominations were with great unanimity agreed on ...

To the independent electors of the city of New-York : There was a time when a majority of the citizens of New-York were so opposed to lawyers as members of the legislature, that a single gentleman of that profession ... could not obtain a majority of suffrages ... But the times are changed ...
Published: (1788)

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)

General Committee, May 1, 1775 : The following persons were mentioned in the Committee of Observation, as proper to be elected for a General Committee for the City and County of New-York, in the present alarming exigency. ...

Albany, 28th March, 1798. Gentlemen, At a very large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Albany ... on the 17th of March, inst. the following nomination of candidates to be supported at the ensuing election was unanimously made. ...
Published: (1798)

New-York, November 10th, 1792 : Please to give the following extracts from the Journal of the Senate of the state of New-York a place in your paper, agreeably to the order of the Senate of the 17th instant thereto annexed. ...
Published: (1792)

Machine politics and money in elections in New York City.
by: Ivins, William Mills, 1851-1915
Published: (1970)

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.

Gatekeepers to the franchise : shaping election administration in New York /
by: Hayduk, Ronald, 1958-
Published: (2005)

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)