Elizabethtown, New-Jersey, Committee, restore the Inhabitants of Richmond County, New-York, to their commercial privileges, they having, in general, signed the Association. [1775-07-17] New-Jersey, Elizabethtown Committee. [S4-V2-p1674] [Document Details][Complete Volume]

Elizabethtown (New-Jersey) Committee

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ELIZABETHTOWN (NEW-JERSEY) COMMITTEE.

Committee Chamber, Elizabethtown, July 17, 1775.

Resolved, That this Committee, for every hundred weight of Saltpetre made within this Town for the first three months after this day, will pay the sum of twenty Pounds, proclamation money of New-Jersey, on the delivery thereof to this Committee, and fifteen Pounds, of same currency, for the like quantity of Saltpetre, made and delivered as aforesaid, within the next three months thereafter.

The Chairman of this Committee having received a letter from Mr. Richard Lawrence, a Delegate of Richmond County for the Provincial Congress of the Colony of New-York, informing that the inhabitants of said County had, in general, signed the Association recommended by the Committee of New-York, this Committee are therefore of opinion that the inhabitants of said County be restored to their commercial privileges with the inhabitants of this Town. By order of the Commities:

JONATHAN HAMPTON, Chairman.

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