Greenwich, Fairfield County, (Conn.) Committee

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In Committee of Safety and Inspection for the Town of Greenwich, in the County of Fairfield, October 3, 1775:

Coles Townsend, of said Greenwich, having been duly notified to appear this day before the said Committee, to vindicate his conduct respecting a complaint brought against him for horse-racing, did not think proper to appear.

Wherefore, the Committee proceeded with care and impartiality to examine and consider the evidence laid before them in support of the charge; by which it appeared, that the said Coles Townsend had discovered a spirit of opposition to the measures adopted for the preservation of American liberty, both with respect to his being proved guilty of the fact alleged against him, as also for his contempt of the authority of this Committee in their publick capacity.

Wherefore, the Committee find themselves under the necessity of making publick the conduct of the said Coles Townsend, as a violator of the Continental Association; and that, according to the tenor thereof, every true friend to the freedom of this Country ought immediately to break off all connections with him, and treat him as a foe to the rights of British America.